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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 the Italian Book Company is "the only custodian [for this work] in the United States of North…
Per un governo di pace e di liberta in Italia! [For a Government of Peace and Liberty in Italy!] [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, 1942.
"Appeal of the Italian National Front at the Underground Conference in Milan, December, 1942." L'Unità del Popolo was the Italian-language newspaper of the Communist Party U.S.A.
Un appello agli Italiani [An Appeal to Italians]. [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, [1942.]
Text is only in Italian, unlike the "Per un governo" which is otherwise a similar pamphlet issued by the Italian Communist Party, whose newspaper was L'Unità del Popolo.
L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, contemporaneo romanzo intimo-passionale [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Contemporary Intimate-Passionate Novel]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1944.
See the entry for the 1912 facsimile copy of the original of this work for the full story of Vincenzo Paternò del Cugno, a Sicilian baron who killed his married lover, the Countess Giulia, in Rome in March 1911, when she refused to give him any more…
Sgraffi [Scratches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1946.
This collection of poetry is dedicated to those who have gone through the same struggles that Damiani had suffered.For a brief biography of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime in Italy…
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 into Italian jargon and the Bolognese dialect, among other specialties, publishing in Lingau Nostra,…
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., 1949.
See entries for the 1911 [1912] editions of this work, when a copy cost $1.25.This 1949 edition cost $2.25, a fairly modest increase given the passage of 38 years.Note that the publisher was no longer Nicoletti Bros. My guess is that when Nicoletti…
Tears. New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943.
Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of the Comintern and later became a political party leader in Italy.This poetry collection includes…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].
See a complete description of this work in that of the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in American history in the last section of the work is dated then in the present: translated, it reads, "The…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].
See a complete description of this work in the entry for the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in American history in the last section of the work is dated then in the present: translated, it reads,…
La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere. Boston, 1940-1946.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere, Vol. 3, No. 3. Boston, April-May 1941.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
Il libro delle erbe: medicinali e magiche di [A.DeM & UF] compilato su varie opere di botanica medica [Illustrated Herbarium. Medicines and Magic Potions Compiled on Various Works of Botanical Medicine]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1946.
This work fairly calls De Martino and Fragasso, both in subtitle and author listing, the "compilers" (from other sources) of the information rather than "authors." Here, as often, however, the cover (Erbario Figurato) doesn't match the title page.…
Segretario amoroso italiano-inglese [Romantic Secretary (Italian-English)]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1945.
The "secretary" like this one, filled with "model" business and social letters in both Italian and English, was surely a best seller for the Italian Book Company - Società Libraria Italiana: witness the variety of such works just by the IBC alone.…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica Vol. III [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. III]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1949.
While this work calls itself "Volume III," it's really more a reprint of the original work from 13 years before but supplemented by additional names. Clearly, the original was successful enough that Flamma (or Cocce Press) thought it worthwhile to…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Bologna: Mammolo Zamboni, 1947.
See the lengthy history of this work in the description of the 1927 Edizione Libertarie edition published in Italian in New York in order to understand where this edition fits into that history.Borghi's work was only published in Italy (of course, in…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 1. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Gennaio [January] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 2. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 28 Febbraio [February] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 3. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Marzo [March] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian…
Casanova: memorie d'avventure amorose | scritte da lui stesso | e riordinate da | Franco Bello [Casanova: memoirs of amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.
The fascination of many with the “avventure amorose” of one of the great pleasure seekers and serial seducers (of the wives and daughters of important subjects of French King Louis XV) in European history apparently continued into the 1940s America…
Rodolfo Valentino: avventure amorose [Rodolfo Valentino: amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.
Published in the same year as the autobiography of Casanova, q.v., the advertisement for this work (on the back cover of the Casanova) noted not only "i suoi trionfi, i suoi amori" (his triumphs and his love affairs) but also "la sua tragica fine"…
Fascismo: masnadieri antichi e moderni [Fascismo: Ancient and Modern Brigands]. San Francisco: Tipografia Internazionale, 1943.
Dedicated to Signora Aida Fraschina. A partially satiric - “Fascismo celeste,” as well as “Fascismo biondo” and “Fascismo bruno,” are titles of some of the chapters - but also serious look at the movement by Crespi at his most playful as well as on…
Scissione e nuovo schieramento nel campo sindacale mondiale [Split and new alliance in the world-wide syndicalist camp]. New York: American Federation of Labor, International Labor Relations Committee, 1949.
This 16-page pamphlet is a republication of a magazine article, that is, "Ripubblicato, in seguito a speciale autorizzazione, dal numero di gennaio 1949 de FOREIGN AFFAIRS, rivista americana trimestrale, 58 East 68th Street, New York [Republished,…
Pervertimento: L'Antifascismo di Carlo Fama [Depravity: the anti-fascism of Carlo Fama]. New York: Libreria del Grido della Stirpe, [n.d.]
Trombetta (b. Aquila, 1885 - d. New York, ca. 1950s) was a freelance journalist who immigrated to the U.S. in 1903, became an American citizenship, and then lost it. He began his journalistic career at the L’Italia Nostra (Our Italy), a weekly…