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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 demonstration connected with a nurses’ strike in a Roman hospital. When released from prison, he found…
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 demonstration connected with a nurses’ strike in a Roman hospital. When released from prison, he found…
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 case at the time of publication of this work, Taddei published in his native Italy.Ezio Taddei (b.…
La fabbrica parla [The Factory Speaks]. Milano: Milano-Sera Ed., 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 case at the time of publication of this work, Taddei published in his native Italy.Ezio Taddei (b.…
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 dialect. It includes a preface by Agostino de Biasi, publisher of Il Carroccio during most of its…
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.
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.
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 Baldwin, Max Eastman, Norman Thomas; and poems by Ted Robinson and Arturo Giovannitti. The work includes a…
Aritmetica [Arithmetic]. Missoula: Scuole Fort-Missoula, 1943 [Anno XXI].
This arithmetic textbook was written in Italian for classes for Italians - mostly civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time - who were imprisoned at the generally benign internment camp at Ft. Missoula, Montana, during World War II,…
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 Aritmetica, another such textbook.Note the notation of the year of the Fascist regime (Anno XXI) in the…
Notice to Aliens of Enemy Nationalities: The United States Government requires all aliens of German, Italian, or Japanese nationality to apply at post offices nearest to their place of residence for a Certificate of Identification...Go to your postmaster today for printed directions. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1942.
Notice to aliens in a rather large handbill, perhaps more accurately a broadside, to advise them to file applications to register for a certificate of identification and when to do so, namely, February 9-28, 1942 in all states but eight listed ones,…
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 not canonized a saint until 1946, the title of this work predicts it with certainty, which is not…
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 Modigliani, the painter. His position as an anti-fascist was close to that of Gaetano Salvemini. He…
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 the 1940s.
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 remain useful as a measure of the prejudices against Italian Americans by educated Italians of his…
Peccato e luce [Sin and Light]. New York: The Venetian Press, 1949.
Giuseppe (later, Joseph) Tusiani (b. San Marco in Lamis (Puglia) 1924 - d. New York 2020) was a poet who composed in four languages - Italian, Gargano dialect, Latin and English - an academic teacher of Italian literature, and a translator.…
Petali sull'Onda: poesie [Petals on the Wave: poetry]. Bronx: Euclid Publishing Company, 1948.
See the description of Peccato e luce of Tusiani for his biography.
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 than the more familiar first name, Galileo), as well as his battles with the religious authorities.…
Obici: biografia [Obici: Biography]. New York: Tipografia Ed. Scarlino, 1943.
"Impressioni" of novelist Italo Stanco follows at end. Caminita describes the source of inspiration for this biography: walking up Broadway one evening with an editor of Il Corriere d’America. The sight of the electric sign at 47th Street and…
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 rivoluzione sociale. In addition to the original essay, the work includes over fifty articles written…
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 of Max Sartin, see the description in La guerra che viene.
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. 110 of this "edizione limitata di 500 copie numerate [edition limitated to 500 numbered…
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 with Vincenzo Gemito. In 1908, he moved to New York, to sculpt. He was a teacher at and co-founder of…
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.
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.