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La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere, Vol. 3, No. 3. Boston, April-May 1941.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere. Boston, 1940-1946.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
The Story of a Proletarian Life. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924.
Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons, who wrote (and translated into Italian) Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti, also in the collection in both its English original and Italian translation. It contains a forward by Alice Stone Blackwell and an…
Per una concentrazione repubblicana-socialista in Italia [For a Republican-Socialist Integration in Italy]. Boston: Edizioni de Controcorrente, [1944].
A much later work of Salvemini, this essay is addressed to members of the Partita Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiana. He notes that many of the members have asked him to return to Italy, to which he responds that he has no right to participate in the…
Saggi de' novellieri italiani d'ogni secolo [Samples of Italian Short Story Writers of Each Century: drawn from the most celebrated writers, with brief notes on the life of each one of them]. Boston: Gray e Bowen, 1832.
This is one of several works in the Collection that, while shedding no light on Italian immigration in America, and not authored by an Italian in America, nevertheless merits inclusion as part of the "pre-history" of Italians in America. Although…
Rendiconto Finaziario del Comitato di Difesa pro Sacco e Vanzetti. 5 maggio 1920- 31 ottobre 1923 [Financial Report of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. May 5, 1920- October 31, 1923]. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com., 1923.
Financial reporting listing contributors and thier amounts, with a two-page preface by Felicani, the treasurer of the Committee, and a one-page statement by Sacco and Vanzetti themselves.I find no copies of this in OCLC.
De Porquet's Italian Phrases; or, Il Fraseggiatore Toscano. Boston: S. Burdett & Co., 1832.
Reflecting the widespread interest in learning Italian among Americans in this era, this work was published in the same year, 1832, as the Longfellow work in the collection. This is the "third edition, revised and corrected," by Carlo Alfieri, an…
Fascismo dalla marcia su Roma all'impero [Fascism from the March on Rome to the Empire]. Boston: Peabody Press, 1937.
An obviously laudatory view of fascism from the author, with an unusual smiling faced portrait of Mussolini, with facsimile signature, as a frontispiece. Boscarini was a radio announcer in Italian on four radio stations in the Greater Boston area.…