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Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America [Italians in the United States]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1906.
Published as a result of the organizing committee of the 1906 Milan Exposition directing Italian Chambers of Commerce around the world to prepare a volume in a series about “gli Italiani all’estero” (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.
This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b. Veneto, 1857; d. Buenos Aires, 1921) was first published in America on December 13, 1880 in the…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.
This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with sections on criminality, capital punishment, the system of incarceration, transportation methods,…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.
This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in America in the very early days - Rossi arrived in New York in 1880 - of the mass migration.Rossi (b.…