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Eresia: di oggi e di domani, per l'affrancamento dell'individuo [Heresy: of Today and Tomorrow, for the Liberation of the Individual]. Bronx, Ottobre [October] 1931.See the main entry for Eresia, below, for a discussion of this anarchist magazine published in the Bronx.
Guida degli Stati Uniti con particolare riferimento alla opera svoltavi dagli italiani [Guide to the United States with particular reference to the works carried out by Italians]. New York: The Vigo Press, 1937.Giovanni Schiavo, a self-taught historian, brought out many volumes of his Italian-American Who's Who, in English (unlike Flamma), from the late 1930s…
Berneri in Ispagna [Berneri in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1937.Deported to Italy from the U.S. in 1919 with his leader, Luigi Galleani, author Schiavina returned illegally to the U.S. in 1928 using the name Max…
La guerra che viene [The War that is Coming]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.Deported to Italy from the U.S. with Galleani, Max Sartin, whose real name was Rafaelle Schiavina (b. San Carlo (Ferrara), Italy, April 8, 1894 – d.…
Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.Postiglione (b. 1893…
La carezza divina: romanzo [The Divine Caress: a Novel]. Milano: Casa ed. Sonzogno (Alberto Matarelli), 1939-XVII.The special interest of this work is that it provides an autobiographical glimpse of Pallavicini, hidden behind the character Giorgio Albani. It…
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…
Verso il nulla creatore [Toward the Creative Nothing]. West NY, NJ: Spec. Ed Virginio De Martin, 1939.The cover and, such as it is, title page state “Special Edition Edited by Virginio De Martin | Publisher of "Supermen Literature," West New York, NJ…
Storia della Sicilia nelle rivoluzioni e rivolte [Story of Sicily in Revolutions and Revolts]. New York: Italian Publishers, 1934.This is an unnumbered signed copy ("ogni copia deve portare la firma dell'autore [every copy should carry the signature of the author]").Of Gaspare…
John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939.The book opens with an adulatory preface by "Italian Book Co.," probably De Martino himself. This is one of the relatively few works published by the…
Al microfono: discorsi trasmessi alla Radio -Stazione W.O.F. [sic] [At the Microphone: talks transmitted on Radio Station W.O.F.]. New York: [n.p.], 1937.As the title of this self-published work states, these are transcriptions of talks transmitted by the author to his radio audience in 1937. The talks…
La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.In this 24-page pamphlet, Lisanti praises fascism, though noting its differences from Christianity. Lisanti declares that fascism has substituted for…
Aneliti e singulti. Medaglioni [Yearnings and Sobs. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1935.This work was published in Newark by the Adunata dei Refrattari, the successor to the Cronaca Sovversiva led by Raffaele Schiavina (Max Sartin) after…
Viva l'anarchia! [Hooray for Anarchy!] Newark: Cronaca Sovversiva, [1931].Three-panel folded keepsake from the Cronaca Sovversiva, on heavy stock, enunciating the principles of how long anarchism will have to exist - so long…
Fiorello LaGuardia. New York: Worthy Printing Company, Inc., 1934.Published only a year after La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City, this work by Flamma is, for the first half, a dyspeptic (or dystopic)…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1936.Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) first emigrated to the United States in 1909. During the First World War, he was a volunteer…
Carlo Marx e Bacunin in Spagna [Karl Marx and Bakunin in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.Mikhail Bakunin (or "Bacunin" in Italian) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism, a contemporary of Marx who split from Marx after the first…
Viva Rambolot! (Bozzetto in un atto) [Viva Rambolot! Sketch in one act]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [n.d.]This work depicts the domestic life of a prosecutor who tries to explain and justify his work activities to his daughter in the service of “the…
Contro gli intrighi massonici nel campo rivoluzionario [Against Massonic Plots in the Revolutionary Battlefield]. Newark: I gruppi anarchici del antracite, 1939.This is a collection of essays by Camillo Berneri and Armando Borghi. Berneri was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist…
Poesie [Poetry]. Costacciaro: Comune di Costacciaro, 2001.This volume contains facsimile reproductions of five books of Bartoletti's poetry, including Nostalgie proletarie, Riflessioni Poetiche, and Nel sogno…
Caduti per noi, caduti per voi: raccolta di poesie di Angelica Balabanoff [Fallen for Us, Fallen for You: a Collection of Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff]. New York: Edizioni "La Fiaccola," [1935].Unlike Tears, this collection of Balabanoff's poetry contains only poetry in Italian. It is dedicated "To the victims of Fascism, to the Martyrs for…
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and…
Mussolineide: poema antifascista e di rivendicazione sociale [The Mussoliniad: An antifacist Poem of Social Demands]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]This anonymous work, an elegantly written and substantial (nearly 300 pages) mock-epic in terza rima of sixteen cantos, is of course about the life…
Directory of Italian-Americans in Commerce and Professions-1937. Chicago: Continental Press, 1937.First Edition [stated]; ex-libris copy (The Free Library of Philadelphia). Detailed directory by State and major City. Promises a bigger and better…
Gli italiani di New York. [The Italians of New York]. New York: Labor Press, 1939.This Italian version of the original WPA Guide "The Italians of New York" was "riveduta ed ampliata da Alberto Cupelli" (revised and expanded by…