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La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.
Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944 pamphlet, Cacchione was supportive of Antonini: see DRESSMAKERS ITALIANI, volete che la nostra Locale…
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…
Core 'ngrato: canzone napoletana [Ungrateful Heart: Neapolitan Song]. Milano: Ed. Ricordi, 1947.
Note "versi di R. Cordiferro" in interior; "trascrizione per fisarmonica di Luigi Oreste Anzaghi [transciption for accordion by Luigi Oreste Anzaghi]" noted on outside cover; published by G. Ricordi © 1911, i.e., several decades before this copy,…
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…
Due conferenze: chi siamo e che cosa vogliamo: patria e religione [Two Lectures: Who We Are and What do We Want: Homeland and Religion]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
Due conferenze includes two of D'Andrea's public speeches delivered during her lecture tours around the country - given in New York City on March 20, 1932 and (at Cooper Union) on January 6, 1929 - and published here in 1947 by the L’Adunata dei…
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.
La cucina casareccia napoletana pei golosi e buongustai [Neapolitan Homecooking for Gourmands and Gourmets]. New York: Italian Book Company, 194? [sic]
Printed in Raimondi, Italy, at what seems to be a school for the deaf and mute (Scuola Tip. Sordomuti); an E. Rossi (bookstore and general emporium of things Italian, then located at 191 Grand St.) stamp on title page, just above the publisher's…
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…
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,…
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…
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"…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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) collection of Gori's poems; it includes poems written in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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.