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Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1961.
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 continued its popularity in Italy, some 16…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti.[Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia, with pronunciation. Divided in 11 parts]. New York: Libreria De Martino, Inc./Italian Book Company, [1963].
See discussion, generally, of the 1914 edition of this work. And see the additional discussion in the description of what appears to be an identical 1963 edition (with, as here, "revised by F. Tudisco" on the cover but not the title page). Mr.…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti [The Italian American Experience]. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
This is the Arno Press (New York Times) reprint of the original work (also in the collection, q.v.).This volume includes Pietro Russo's important and oft-cited "La stampa periodica italo-americana," a basic work for understanding the Italian-American…
Giuseppe Ciancabilla. Imola: Galeati, 1965.
This work recites at the outset Ciancabilla's conversion from socialism to anarchism due to his interview of Errico Malatesta in 1897 for an article Ciancabilla was writing for Avanti!. About half of the 78 pages is about his time in the U.S.Author…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti: L'emigrazione e l'opera degli italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America Atti del III Symposium di Studi Americani Firenze, 27-29 Maggio 1969. Firenze: Istituto di Studi Americani Universita degli studi di Firenze, 1969.
This is a fine early collection of essays by both Italian American and Italian scholars about the emigration and work of Italians in the U.S. The essays arise from a symposium of American studies at Florence in May 1969, very soon after the beginning…
I trapiantati [The Transplanted]. Milano: Longanesi & Co., 1963.
Taking in this amalgam of columns he wrote for an Italian newspaper a sometimes sympathetic but often condescending view of Italian Americans, not atypical for Italians of his class and that period of time, Prezzolini said they were not a "blend" of…
La democrazia e l'emigrazione in America [Democracy and Emigration in America]. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1964.
The signature stamp of Leonard Covello, the profoundly influential Italian-American educator in East Harlem, reflects his ownership of this copy of Dore's work, surely one of the four or five most highly cited sources of historical and sociological…
Richiamo all'anarchia: protesta e proposta anarchica in otto conferenze pronunciate in terra d'esilio durante la dominazione fascista [Call to Anarchy: Anarchic Protest and Proposal in 8 Lectures Given in a Land of Exile during the Fascist Domination]. Cesena: Edizioni l'antistato Cesena, 1965.
Virgilia D’Andrea (b. Sulmona, 1890; d. New York, 1933) did not live to see this work, published three decades after her death; she died suddenly at the young age of 43. D’Andrea immigrated to the U.S. with her lover, Armando Borghi in 1926 or 1927.…
The New Book of Caricatures by Enrico Caruso. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1965.
This later edition, the most commonly available one (dated 1965), lacks the biographical entry at the outset, the ads at the end, and most of the Italian-language material. However, it does contain Caruso’s letters in the Italian original,…