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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 and theorist. Along with Carlo Rosselli and Mario Angeloni, he organized anti-fascist militiamen 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 by "Max Sartin" (Raffaele Schiavina) after he secretly returned to the U.S. following his deportation…
Il tallone di ferro [Heel of Iron]. San Francisco: Gene's Print Shop. 1939.
This copy is inscribed by Crespi "to Liberto Nathan"; on verso of title page, the inscription continues "A Liberto Nathan per il suo buon successo -- nell'esame dell'Università 1940 [for his great success in his university exams, 1940]" & directs…
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 Milanese Il Corriere della Sera, according to Flamma's Italiani di America. Corrado Altavilla was…
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 fuori Italia, outside of Italy: note the government publisher, as well as "Anno [year] XV" of the…
Sotto il segno del littorio I: La genesi del fascismo [Under the Sign of the Lictors I: The origin of fascism]. Chicago: Libreria Sociale, 1933.
The stunning front and back covers of Sotto il segno were illustrated by Fort Velona (b. Calabria, 1893 - d. New York, 1965), a socialist, labor organizer as well as cartoonist, who became best known for his anti-fascist cartoons, reproduced widely…
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 d'oltretomba. With a fine introduction by Martino Marazzi, noted scholar of Bartoletti and of…
America amara [Bitter America]. Firenze: Sansoni, 1940.
Cecchi was a literary and arts critic and writer, born in Firenze, who worked there and in Rome. He was a friend both of Giovanni Pappini, philosopher and writer, and of Giovanni Gentile, the "philosopher of fascism." Durante notes that Cecchi was…
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.
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 1938 such Directory, but I have not found evidence that one was in fact published.
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 English) for reasons that will become clear.This brochure contains one "lecture" of The Crusaders Academy…
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 Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer,…
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 Law.”For a brief bio of Damiani (1876-1953), see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani…
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 International. Bakunin was thus a hero to the early Italian anarchists, including Malatesta, Galleani,…
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, 1889), which Damiani mentions. Born in 1855 or, according to Damiani, 1858 in Cosenza (Calabria),…
Fascismo dalla marcia su Roma all'impero [Fascism from the March on Rome to the Empire]. Boston: Peabody Press, 1937.
An obviously laudatory view of fascism from the author, with an unusual smiling faced portrait of Mussolini, with facsimile signature, as a frontispiece. Boscarini was a radio announcer in Italian on four radio stations in the Greater Boston area.…
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 include mostly anodyne subjects, like "Holy Thursday," "Goodness," "The Book" - "if good, is your…
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 as all the injustices of the world remain. Luigi Galleani was one of the anarchist movement’s most…
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 his sub rosa return to America some time after his deportation in 1919. However, this work was…
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. New York, 1987) returned illegaly to the U.S. in 1928, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari until its…
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 Sartin, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari under that name until its demise in 1971. (Schiavina died in…
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…
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 provides a closeup and intimate portrayal of the "irresolute dualism of the children of the second…
Gli Italo-Americani e la guerra [Italian Americans and the War]. New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1940.
Published for National Election Campaign Committee Communist Party of the United States.Cacchione was the first member of the New York City Council who was openly a member of the Communist Party USA.
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 Socialista Italiana in New York. So it is possible, i fnot likely, that the federation also published…