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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 Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 8, No. 78. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Febbraio [February] 1926.
Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- Prominente Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that…
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…
Tutto il dolore, tutto l'amore [All of the Pain, All of the Love: A novel in an Italian American Environment]. San Francisco: L'Italia Press Company, Ed., 1926.
The title page states, “Pubblicato nelle appendici del Giornale ‘L’Italia’ di San Francisco,” [Published as appendices of the San Francisco newspaper, L’Italia]. Like many of the works of both fiction and non-fiction (e.g., Carnovale, Il giornalismo)…
The Story of a Proletarian Life. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924.
Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons, who wrote (and translated into Italian) Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti, also in the collection in both its English original and Italian translation. It contains a forward by Alice Stone Blackwell and an…
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…
Scugnizzo: poemetto napoletano [Street urchin: short Neapolitan poem]. New York: Coccè Press, [1924].
Inscribed to "Al poeta Armando Massa, con sincera e cordiale amici fa'a, con viva ammrazione, Riccardo Cordiferro, N.Y. 21 Giugno 1924."
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.
Quando l'amore bussa…operetta in tre atti [When Love Comes Knocking. . . operetta in three acts]. Napoli: Casa Ed. Gennarelli, 1921.
This import of an operetta (with a book by Alfredo Napolitano, music by Oscar Cattedra) is itself dated and copyrighted 1922, a year after the 1921 publication in Italy. However, note the lower part of the cover, where the 1922 U.S. copyright is…
Premiata fabbriche di armoniche [Prizewinning Accordion Factory]. Firenze: Borrani - Firenze, 1928.
This trade catalogue contains glorious color illustrations of accordions made at the center of world-wide accordion manufacture for more than 150 years: in Castelfidardo, Italy, where Paolo Soprani had been "since 1863." While the catalogue itself is…
Per le vie del mondo [Along the Highways of the World]. Milano: C.E.Sonzogno (Matarelli), 1933.
This work also appeared as a serial in the Corriere d'America in 1922-23 published under the title Il romanzo d’un emigrate [The Novel of an Emigrant]. The main characters are its just and strong hero, Bruno Speri, who also appears in L’amante delle…
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…
Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.
This work contains Giovannitti’s speech (entitled “Davanti ai Giurati di Salem, Massachusetts” [Before the Jurors of Salem, Mass.]) in 1912 to the jurors in the trial at which he, Joseph Ettor and Joseph Caruso were accused of the murder of Anna Lo…
Mussolini. New York: Italy Publishing Co., 1923.
Bound in one volume (with Guido Podrecca's Il fascismo, q.v.), not separately paginated. This, the first (pp. 1- 174) of two works bound together, is that of De Fiori (b. Venezia, 1890; active 1910s-1940s), who knew Mussolini “intimamente” from…
Manuale degli Stati Uniti: istruzioni ad uso degli immigranti e stranieri [Manual of the United States: Instructions for the Use of Immigrants and Foreigners]. Washington: Società Nazionale Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1930.
There were 91 editions of this work published between 1923 and 2001 in 17 languages, and more entries in OCLC for this work than any other.Author Elizabeth C. Barney Buel (or Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel)(1868-1943) was a member of the Connecticut chapter…
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…
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…
La battaglia dell'Italia negli Stati Uniti - 1925-1926: articoli e note polemiche; con ritratto e autografo di Benito Mussolini [The Battle of Italy in the United States - 1925-1926: essays and polemical notes; with a portrait and autograph of Benito Mussolini]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1927.
This work consists of polemical articles (against syndicalists and other enemies of fascism) from the prior two years of Il Carroccio as publisher, not simply as printer (as in the case of De Fiori's Mussolini). De Biasi (b. Sant-Angelo dei Lombardi…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
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."…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten]. Roma and New York, 8 Gennaio [January] 1905 - 28 Novembre [November] 1909.
The collection includes:Italian imprint:L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 2 - 8 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 3 - 15 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 6 - 5 Febbraio [February] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 7 - 12 Febbraio [February] 1905…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 8. Roma, 19 Febbraio [February] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 2. Roma: L'Asino, 8 Gennaio [January] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 11. Roma, 12 Marzo [March] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…