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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 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 Christ’s exhortation to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” the “political imperative of…
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…
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…
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,…
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 1939”; the cover also states at the top “superuomo: e: iconoclasta” (Superman and iconoclast).…
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…
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 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to…
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…
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 through as late as the 1960s. This Italian language guidebook was a departure from his usual…
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.
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 (verse).See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12…
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 hyperlink for the "main entry" at the end (1915-1932) for its history and place in Italian American…
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 Lannutti in the December issue stand out for the frequent phenomenon we have seen, of the politics of…
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 issues by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, the poet laureate of Arkansas, and essays by Edward Corsi, Giuseppe…
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 this libretto. Though he sometimes also composed music, Picchianti (b. Florence, 1871 - d. New York,…
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…
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 produced in America by Italians. It is discussed at some length by historian Marcella Bencivenni in…
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 polemicist, was known for his disputes with individualists. He contributed to many anarchist…
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…
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,…
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),…
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),…