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Ho rinunciato alla libertà [I've Given Up Liberty]. Milano: Le edizioni sociali, 1950.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
Alberi e casolari [Trees and Barns]. New York: Edizione in esilio, 1943.Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895; d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a…
Il pino e la rufola [The Pine Tree and the Mole]. New York: Edizione in esilio, 1944.Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895 - d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a…
Il sistema rappresentativo e l'ideale [The Representative System and the Ideal]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1945.While published in Newark, this work was printed in France at the "Imprimerie Commerciale de la Tribune Républicaine, Saint-Étienne".For a fuller bio…
Il mio primo maestro: poemetto di Onorio Ruotolo [My First Master: a short poem of Onorio Ruotolo]. New York: La Lucerna, 1948.Inscribed in 1951 on the verso of the title page by Ruotolo "al caro amico Hugo Rolland...[to {my} dear friend Hugo Rolland . . . " This is copy no.…
Nel fuoco del rimorso [In the Fire of Remorse]. New York: La Lucerna, 1949.No. 103 of 500 numbered copies.For a biography of Ruotolo, see the description in Geremiade al Bambino Gesù.
Convito d'amore: poemetto [Boarding School of Love: a short poem]. New York: La Lucerna, 1949.No. 474 of 500 numbered copies.For Ruotolo's biography, see the description in Geremiade al Bambino Gesù.
Geremiade al Bambino Gesù [Jeremiad to the Baby Jesus]. New York: La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco, 1948 [Monthly religious and cultural magazine directed by Scilla de Glauco].Ruotolo, a close friend of Arturo Giovannitti, spent his infancy in Campagna, according to Francesco Durante, and went to Naples to study sculpting…
Dal Convento al Matrimonio ovvero il destino dei poveri [From the Convent to Matrimony: or the destiny of the poor]. New York: Eloquent Press Corp. - N. Morgillo, [1949].Ribet dedicates the work to her son Joseph, who appears to have been killed in World War II. Her goal is to help those who, in encouraging or allowing…
Commenti di scrittori italiani sul "Nuovo Ordine Universale": 13 lettere al presidente degli Stati Uniti in due opscoli di un interprete del popolo, coordinato e tradotto in inglese da Rodolfo Pucelli [Comments of Italian Writers on the "New Universal Order": 13 letters to the President of the United States of America in two pamphlets by an interpreter of the people, coordinated and translated into English by Rodolfo Pucelli]. New York: Coccè Press, 1950.This bilingual work - first 32 pages in English, the same repeated in Italian on pages 33-64 - follows upon Pucelli's English translation of the noted…
America in pantofole: un impero senza imperialisti| Ragguagli| intorno alla trasformazione degli Stati Uniti| dopo le guerre mondiali [America in Slippers: an empire without imperialists: pieces of information about the transformation of the United States after the world wars]. Firenze: Vallechi Ed., 1950.Director of the Casa Italiana at Columbia during the fascist era, Prezzolini is mostly remembered as a fascist sympathizer. His views nevertheless…
Rime [Rhymes]. Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1948.Inscribed in Italian by author 1949 to Dottore Giovanni Feo. I find nothing about the author in either the Schiavo or Flamma biographical volumes of…
La strada della gioia [The Road to Joy]. New York: Liberal Press, Inc., 1946.This work, with a cover illustration by W. Vercellino, is a series of philosophical essays, apparently all written by Pietro Novasio, about the “art…
Mastro Bertuchello e il tesoro dei ventimiglia [Master Bertuchello and the Treasure of the 20,000]. Milano: Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano, 1950.This is an Italian Book Company import: underneath the name of the Casa ed. "La Madonnina," the Milanese publisher on the cover, is the notice that…
L'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti [The Assassination of Giacomo Matteotti]. New York: A cura dell'Italian-American Labor Council, New York City, 1945.Preface by Luigi Antonini. Modigliani (b. Livorno 1872 - d. Roma 1947) was an attorney and politician, a Socialist Party Deputy, and brother of Amedeo…
Rapsodia napoletana [Neapolitan Rhapsody]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.Rapsodia napoletana is an epic story of the history of Naples from its founding as a Greek colony, composed of 105 sonnets written in the Neapolitan…
Napule d'Aiere [Naples of Yesteryear]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Le canzoni de l'ora [Songs of the Hour]. New York: Edizioni Sirena, 1945.On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Ai margini della lingua [On the Edge of Language]. Firenze: G.C.Sansoni, 1947.Menarini (b. Bologna 1901 - d. Bologna 1984) was a distinguished Italian linguist who, though he did not attend college, was a scholarly researcher…
La prima santa d'America: vita di Madre Cabrini [The First Saint in America: life of Mother Cabrini]. Brooklyn: Casa Ed. Fortuna Publishing, 1944.La prima santa d’America reflects the intense pride in Mother Cabrini that continued to exist nearly thirty years after her death. Although she was…
Manet Immota Fides: Omaggio all memoria imperitura di Carlo Tresca [Our Faith Remains Unshaken: In Tribute to the Everlasting Memory of Carlo Tresca]. New York: Il Martello (Gruppo Carlo Tresca), 1943.Created in the wake of his assassination in Union Square, this work includes essays honoring Tresca by James T. Farrell, John Dos Passos, Roger…
Rivoluzione e controrivoluzione [Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Manifesto of the militants and the Reunited Anarchist Groups of North America]. Brooklyn: Comitato dei Gruppi Riuniti Galilei Club, 1944.The Galilei Club was another chosen name for an anarchist group, reflecting the independence of its namesake (whose last name the group used, rather…
Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th)…
Una battaglia [A Struggle]. Roma: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.The first 65 pages of this work reprint and expand upon an earlier Galleani work, also in the Collection, Contro la guerra – contro la pace – per la…
Elementi di Algebra [Elements of Algebra]. Missoula: Scuole Fort-Missoula, 1943 [Anno XXI].For classes for Italians who were imprisoned at the internment camp at Ft. Missoula, Montana during World War II; typescript. See discussion of…