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Primo Maggio 1886 e Primo Maggio 1956: segue la ristampa di due scritti di grande interesse: I Martiri di Chicago nella rievocazione storica di Luigi Galleani e di Pietro Gori [May Day 1886 and May Day 1956: followed by the reprinting of an American work of great interest, The Martyrs of Chicago in the Historical Retelling of Luigi Galleani and of Pietro Gori]. Torino: Tip. M. Appiano, 1956.May Day was perhaps the single most important day of the anarchist and socialist year in the U.S. and elsewhere, celebrating the worker and the…
America: Primo Amore [America: First Love]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1959.This is the fourth edition of this work, which is an account of the author's two years in America immediately following the stock market crash of…
Solidarity: published on the occasion of G.D. Procopio's 60th birthday. Brooklyn: Shoe Service Union of US of A., AFL-CIO, 1950.The papers of the honoree of the event on the occasion of his 60th birthday, long-time labor leader Giuseppe D. Procopio, are at the Immigration…
C'è posta per voi, Mr. Brown! [There's Mail for You, Mr. Brown!]. Roma: Ed. Di Cultura Sociale, 1953.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…
Storia della Sicilia Antica [History of Old Sicily]. New York: Divagando Corporation, 1955.This work was illustrated by John Abys, who also, as Giovanni Abys, illustrated both the 1912 original and the 1944 reissue of L'Assassinio della…
Poeti Calabresi in America [Calabrese Poets in America]. Bergamo: La Nuova Italia Letteraria, 1957.ALthough published in Bergamo, the author's introduction is dated New Kensington, PA, May 12, 1956. Calabrese poets whose undated work is included in…
Accordi e dissonanze [Harmonies and Dissonances]. Milano: Editrice Convivio Letterario, 1958.Several of the poems from this Italian original collection are translated in Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian…
Ricciardiana: raccolta di scritti, racconti, memorie, ecc., el veterano attore e scrittore [Ricciardiana: collection of stories, memoirs, etc., of the veteran actor and writer]. New York: Eloquent Press Corp. - N. Morgillo, 1951.Inscribed by the author, an actor and writer, to Angelo Antignacci; preface by Pasquale di Biasi.Ricciardi (b. 1871, Sorrento - d. 1961, Naples) acted…
Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.Maria Jaconis, author of this self-published work, was born in Aprigliano (CS) in 1931 and died in Cosenza in Calabria on March 16, 2023.In between,…
Quando canta il gallo [When the Rooster Crows]. Chicago: E. Clemente & Sons, 1957.This copy was inscribed by Arturo Giovannitti in January 1958, one year before his death, to his good friend, Onorio Ruotolo and his wife, Lucia.…
Sassate: prosa rimata al sugo di limone [Throwing Stones: prose rhymed in lemon sauce]. New York: Libreria Popolizio, [1952]."Gavroche" (the name of the street urchin in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables) is a pseudonym that two Italian book dealers identify as Gigi Damiani. No…
Vita, gesta e amori di Salvatore Giuliano: compilata da U[mberto] F[ragasso] [Life, Deeds and Loves of Salvatore Giuliano: compiled by U[mberto] F[ragasso].] New York: Italian Book Company, 1951.This is the most recently dated imprint (1951) of the Italian Book Company in the collection. Giuliano (b. 1922, killed 1950) was the 20th c. Sicilian…
Efrem Bartoletti: Riflessioni poetiche [Efrem Bartoletti: Poetic Reflections]. Milano: Gastaldi Ed., 1955.Issued in the series of ""Poeti d'oggi"" (Poets of Today). This copy of Bartoletti’s collection of poems is inscribed in the year of publication "in…
La parola del popolo: rivista bimestrale: Cinquantesimo (50) Anniversario 1908-1958 [The Word of the People: bimonthly review: 50th Anniversary 1908-1958]. Chicago: La Parola del Popolo Publishing Assoc., 1958.One of the longest-lived of the socialist publications, La Parola went through many name changes to evade postal authorities and for other…
I canti d 'un raggio di sole [Songs of a Ray of Sunlight]. St. Louis: Fairmount Publishing, 1951.One of several bi-lingual books of poetry in small, handsome format by what appears to have been the author's own Fairmount Publisher. Facing…
Canti esotici degli Ozarks [Exotic Songs of the Ozarks]. St. Louis: Fairmount Publishing, 1958.This is No. 373 of 500 copies printed of this work. It is another bi-lingual work by what appears to be Caradonna's own publishing operation, with…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other…
Mezzo secolo di anarchia (1898-1945) [A Half Century of Anarchy (1898-1945)]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1954.This memoir describes Borghi's arrival in the world of anarchism, so new to him, in very dramatic terms. He was amazed by America: "For a long time, I…