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La Follia di New York [The New York Folly]. New York: Marziale Sisca; The Italian National Magazine Company, 1935-1977.The Collection includes only a few issues of this long-lived important literary and political magazine:La Follia di New York, Vol. XXXXIII, No. 1 -…
La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere, Vol. 2, No. 9. Boston, September 1940.Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in…
The Crusaders Academy of Science Incorporated: Transychology , Part III "Secondary Spiritual Distortions" - "Divinatory Art," No. 36. Bronx: The Crusaders Academy of Science, 1932.I found this lecture series advertised in Il Messaggero della Salute, and brought it into the collection (although it is completely written in…
Discorso radiofonico in Italiano sulla campagna elletorale: domenica, 23 ottobre [Radio Speech in Italian on the electoral campaign of Sunday, October 23]. The Bronx: Il Partito Comunista della Contea del Bronx, [1938].Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter…
Grammatica-enciclopedia Italiana-Inglese per gli Italiani degli Stati Uniti [Italian-English grammar-encyclopedia for the Italians of the U.S.]. New York: Libreria Nuova Italia, ed. [n.d.] .The cover but not the title page of this edition indicates that it is the "nuovissima edizione" - the newest edition - but there is no date inside.The…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company, 1933.Eighth Edition. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York,…
Mussolini in zijn hemd [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Amsterdam: N.V. De Arbeiderspers, [1933].Anyone wondering why the collection would include a book printed in Dutch will want to consult the main entry for the first Italian publication, in…
Il lavoro attraente [Attractive Work]. Ginevra: Carlo Frigerio, Ed., 1938.This is an edited version of an essay which had appeared first in the U.S., in the Italian-American anarchist paper L'Adunata dei Refrattari, edited…
Gabriele D'Annunzio: nella vita e nell'arte [Gabriele D'Annunzio: in Life and in Art]. New York: Cocce Bros., 1938.This is a lengthy essay by Riccardo Cordiferro on perhaps the then most celebrated political, journalistic and literary figure of Italy, who was also…
Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.Ruggiero (b. Grottole 1878 - d. Grassano 1959) was an Italian journalist who had taken a degree in surgery in Italy. He was a socialist in Naples,…
Insurrezione e rivoluzione [Insurrection and Revolution]. Detroit: Libreria Autonoma, 1932.This work was issued in the series "Problemi Attuali [Current Problems]," unnumbered, which series also includes as no. 2 the same author's Il…
L'urto di due mondi: poemetto [The Collision of Two Worlds: a short poem]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1938.Stamped on the title page - bare of any printed text except "L'Urto di due mondi" without "poemetto" much less author Zavattero's name - is "Libreria…
Perché la guerra in Africa [Why the War in Africa?]. New York: Casa ed. "Unità"/ Società ed. "L'Unità", [1935?]We can estimate the date of this work because the introduction begins from the vantage point of "21 years after the beginning of the last world war,"…
Attorno ad una vita [About a Life]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.This is a short biography by Damiani of Niccolò Converti , an anarchist writer who published, among other works, Repubblica ed anarchia (Tunisia,…
Mussolini en chemise [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Paris: Editions Rieder, 1932.This is the French translation of Mussolini in camicia, a 1927 publication in Italian in New York, q.v., that was known and admired enough to receive…
Ad Antonio Fierro: spento da piombo fascista [For Antonio Fierro: killed by a fascist bullet]. New York: [n.p.], [1933].This leaflet contains a poem by the Italian-American labor poet Crivello dedicated to the assassinated Italian immigrant activist Fierro, with a…
Sprazzi di luce: pennelate di propaganda anticlericale. New York: [n.p.], 1940.While the publisher is not listed, as such, the recto of the final leaf displays an advertisement for Il Proletario, published by the Federazione…
Il Bolscevismo: Che cosa è? [Bolshevism: what is it?]. [Detroit: Libreria Autonoma,] 1940.This work is in the series of this publisher known as Problemi Attuali [Current Problems] - Numero 2. The author, an anarchist editor, activist and…
Madre: dramma in 4 atti [Mothers: drama in 4 acts]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishig [sic] Co, 1931.First produced in New York on April 19, 1931, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Madre remains one of the best-known anti-fascist plays written and…
Grammatica Italiana per le scuole italiane all'estero; illustrazioni di testi [Italian Grammar [illustrated, {fascist} Year XV]: for Italian schools abroad]. Roma: Direzione Generale Italiani all'estero, 1937 - XV.This is a good example of a textbook developed as part of the effort by the fascist government to encourage Italian language acquisition by Italians…
La "Montanina": Melodrama in 3 atti. New York: [typescript], [1930s].This libretto was gift to me from the late Gloria Iodice, a friend whose much older husband (Gloria's music teacher) composed the operatic score to…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 18, Vol. 36. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1932. This six-month period of Il Carroccio in 1932 contains essays by Mussolini in nearly every monthly issue, as well as pro-fascist poetry in several…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 18, Vol. 35. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932.The title of one essay by a non-Italian (P.W. Wilson) - "Two Men Who Stand As Symbols - Pius XI and Mussolini," stands out.Some poems by one Anna…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 17, Vol. 34. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1931. See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 17, Vol. 33. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1931.Essays and verse by some of the regulars of Il Carroccio for years, such as Mussolini and Balbo (essays) and Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni and Rodolfo Pucelli…