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La crisi del socialismo [The Crisis of Socialism]. Chicago: Ed. a cura de "Il Proletario", 1922.
A text by anarcho-syndicalist Enrico Meledandri, with sections titled, translated here, “The Fate of Socialism,” “Inert Maximalism,” “Scientific Socialism,” and “Misery and Revolution.” Note that the same printer’s mark of the I.W.W. appears on the…
Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]
That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian printer, Tipografia Sociali, is testimony to the international nature of the anarchist movement.…
Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero [At the Café: Honest Conversations]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, [n.d.]
The Libreria Sociologica (Sociological Bookstore) in Paterson was both a publisher and a bookstore that stocked one of the richest and most varied assortments of inexpensive books and pamphlets for anarchists and socialists in the U.S. These include…
Pensieri scelti per l'evoluzione del cervello per servirsene nelle discussioni pacifiche o in contradditorio [Selected Thoughts for the Evolution of the Brain for Use in Peaceful Discussions or in Debates]. New York: E. Catello, [1924].
The back cover contains an advertisement for Catello's bookstore, listing works that appear to be those of her publishing house, "le edizioni E. Catello", not merely books published by others that she has for sale in her bookstore. Included are many…
Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti [Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti]. New York: Il Martello Publishing Co., 1928.
The original, published in English in 1927, by International Publishers, is also in the Collection. This, the most dramatic, galvanizing (including after their execution) and dispiriting historical event of the era involving Italian anarchists led to…
Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio [Political and Literary Writings: gathered and ordered by Giovanni di Gregorio]. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921.
This compilation of the writings of Flavio Venanzi (b. Roma, 1882; d. New York, 1920) has a book cover design by sculptor Onorio Ruotolo (q.v.), a eulogy by Enrico Leone, and an introduction by Arturo Giovannitti (q.v.). Venanzi was Il Proletario’s…
Attività Italiane in America [Italian Activities in America]. San Francisco: Mercury Press, 1930.
This bilingual work principally by a wealthy, upper-class San Francisco Italian, G. M. Tuoni, provides useful information about Italians on the West Coast that is often lacking in East Coast-oriented histories of Italians in the same period and…
L'Italia sotto il Fascismo: ii suoi aspetti economici, politici e morali: discussi in contradittorio dal Prof. Gaetano Salvemini e dal Prof. Bruno Roselli: con premessa e commenti di G. Di Gregorio [Italy under Fascism: its economic, political and moral aspects: discussions in debate of Prof. Gaetano Salvemini and of Prof. Bruno Roselli, with introduction and comments of G. Di Gregorio]. New York: "Il Martello" Publ. Co., Inc., [1927].
This work is an account, translated from the English original, of a debate between Salvemini and Roselli that took place on January 22, 1927 in New York under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association on the theme of "Italy under Fascism."…
Unionismo industriale e Sindacalismo [Industrial and Trade Unions]. Brooklyn: Casa ed. Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1923.
The title page states Giantino as the author, with no publication date; however, this pamphlet begins with an introduction by Mario De Ciampis dated 1923. Like most unionist pamphlets, this pamphlet contains the preamble of the I.W.W., and also…
La bottega: scene della ricostruzione fascista [The Workshop: scene of the fascist reconstruction]. Detroit: Libreria Autonoma, 1927.
A two-act, heavily anti-fascist play published by the Detroit anarchist group’s bookstore, the Libreria Autonoma (Autonomous Bookstore). (See also Lolmo, Insurrezione e Rivoluzione, published by same publisher., part of the collecton.) Gigi Damiani…
Fecondità: commedia sociale in due atti [Fertility: Social Comedy in two acts]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1928.
This is a social comedic drama published by the book publication arm of the anarchist newspaper L’Adunata dei Refrattari. This 1928 publication is the earliest book in the Collection published by the newspaper which began life in 1922, founded by one…
Del delitto e delle pene nella società di domani [Of Crime and Punishment in the Society of Tomorrow]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [1930].
For a brief bio of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime considered Damiani, always on the move although never in the U.S., as the leader of Italian anarchism.
Femmena 'e triato: scene passionali ed umoristiche di ambiente di palcoscenico [Women and the Theatre: Passionate and Humorous Scenes in the Environs of the Stage]. Napoli: Casa ed. Ferd. Bideri, 1921.
"Copyright 1921 by Italian Book Co. "SOCIETA LIBRARIA ITALIANA" 145-147 Mulberry St.-New York Concessionaria esclusiva per gli Stati [sic] d'America e Canada." The actual publisher was the Neapolitan one noted above. But this sort of importing…
A festa 'e muntevergene ('Mmiezo Nola): Scene carateristiche di vita Napoletana in un atto [At Holiday: Scenes Characteristic of Neapolitan Life in One Act]. Napoli: Casa ed. Ferd. Bideri, 1923.
Like Femmena 'e triato, this work was an import by the Italian Book Company, which imported many works, holding copyright protection for the exclusive distribution of such imported works. This one is dated two years after Femmena 'e triato,…
La tecnica industriale e la rivoluzione proletaria [Industrial Technique and the Proletarian Revolution]. Brooklyn: Libreria dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1922.
On the rear cover is a list of newspapers and magazines published by the I.W.W., in English, Italian and 7 other languages. Giuseppe Cannata succeeded Edmondo Rossoni in the Federazione Socialista Italiana and as editor of Il Proletario. The earlier…
La tattica sindacalista in America [Trade Union Tactics in America]. Brooklyn: Libreria dei Laboratori Industriali del Mondo, [1921].
Giuseppe Cannata succeeded Edmondo Rossoni in the Federazione Socialista Italiana and as editor of Il Proletario. He was also, along with Tresca, a founding member of AFANA, the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America.A list of all works in the…
Che cosa e l'I.W.W.?: una candida dichiarazione dei suoi principii, scopi e metodi [What is the I.W.W.? A candid declaration of its principles, scope and methods]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della I.W.W., 1923.
This is the Italian language version, so stated, of an English language publication "What is the I.W.W.?" Translated by Mario De Ciampis from the English original. De Ciampis was the author of the authoritative short treatise on the history of…
Sull'Oceano: romanzo [On the Ocean: a novel] [Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino, 1921.
Stanco is considered one of the most sophisticated of the Italian-language fiction writers, yet it is impossible to find copies of any of his novels, so I'm happy to have one of his more famous novels (taken from the title of Edmondo De Amicis's…
L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica [The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della Industrial Workers of the World, [c. 1922].
The English language original of this 1920 work remains in print in a fifth edition. It has been translated into 8 languages. This translation from the English-language original was intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
Santa Lucia: le canzoni del 1929 [Saint Lucy: songs of 1929]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1929.
The actual publisher of this music in Italy was Piedigrotta "Santa Lucia", Libero Bovio, Direttore. The Italian Book Company was the importer (although listed as publisher), and probably had its customary exclusive rights to sell the work in the U.S.
Serenatella: versi di Libero Bovio [Serenatella: verses by Libero Bovio]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1918.
The Italian Book Company is nominally the "publisher," but in fact it's really only the copyright holder in the U.S., as noted at the bottom of the second page of this sheet music. In fact, on the cover the work is noted as the "property of the…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella/Soc. Tipografica Italiana, 1921.
Ludovico (really Michele) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had one of the lengthiest, most varied and colorful lives of all the Italian anarchists in America, starting or writing a number of newspapers (with politics ranging from left…
Il supremo ideale umano raggiunto [The Supreme Ideal Human Reached]. Chicago: [n.p.], 1926.
One of the odder publications of Carnovale, a journalist whose most important work, also in the collection, is Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani del Nord America. Carnovale seems to have prided himself on the breadth of genres in which to…
Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la rivoluzione sociale [Against War, Against Peace, for the Social Revolution]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [c. 1930]
This work contains two essays of Galleani's, Per la guerra, per la neutralita o per la pace? (pp. 5-60) and Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la rivoluzione! (lacking the word "sociale" at the end)(pp. 61-74), the first appearing to be the same…
La fine dell' anarchismo? [The End of Anarchism?] New York: Ed. curata da vecchi lettori di Cronica Sovversiva, 1925.
This is in part the transcript of an interview between socialist and anarchist writer and attorney for the anarchists, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and Cesare Sobrero of the Italian daily, La Stampa, and in part, following the interview, Galleani’s…