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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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Italian Book Company in English, presumably to reach a wider audience of Italian American readers…
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 New York, of Armando Borghi's Mussolini in camicia.This is the Dutch translation of that work: shortly…
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 this French translation, and subsequently, translations into Dutch (Mussolini in zijn hemd, 1933),…
Mussolini Red and Black. New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938.
For a full description of this work and its significance, see the description of it in the entry for the 1927 edition (published in New York) of Mussolini in camicia, q.v. It took 11 years for Borghi's work to return in translation to New York, where…
Errico Malatesta in 60 anni di lotte anarchiche: storia*critica*ricordi [Errico Malatesta in 60 Years of Anarchist Struggles: History, Criticism, Memories]. New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933.
Preface by Sébastien Faure. 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…
Mussolini Red and Black. London: Wishart Books Limited, 1935.
Note that his translation by Dorothy Daudley is from the 1932 French edition (Mussolini en chemise, q.v.), rather than the Italian original of 1927 in New York. This edition also includes an Epilogue (fancifully entitled "Hitler: Mussolini's…
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) meditation on the vagaries of wealth, prosperity and our national illusion during the Depression. Only…
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 with the American army. He lived in Chicago, where he worked as secretary of the Italian Chamber of…
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 portrait. Fierro had been killed by Frank Moffer (real name Moddifori) during a clash in Astoria, Queens,…
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 Liberty," named in the prefatory remarks by "gli incaricati" (those in charge). The referenced…
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, then took refuge from the police in an anarchist group.At the age of 29, in 1907, he emigrated to 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, wrote texts designed to help students of English and Italian. This work would appear to be designed…
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 date must be sometime between 1929 and 1933: in the list of Presidents, Herbert Hoover's start date…