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Though himself a founder of a newspaper, Il Pensiero  [Thought] in 1904 in St. Louis, Carnovale denounces Italian American journalism in this work. In one of the newspaper articles collected here, Carnovale writes, p. 10, “this poor intellectual and…

Antonio Margariti (b. Ferruzzano, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1891 – d. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1981) published these memoirs in 1979 at age 87. This "savage and touching" book (Durante) awakened a vast interest, so much so as to be a finalist for…

ALthough published in Bergamo, the author's introduction is dated New Kensington, PA, May 12, 1956. Calabrese poets whose undated work is included in this post-war anthology include those as early as Riccardo Cordiferro and his father, Francesco…

The only known book-length publication of Alessandro and Marziale Sisca's father, Francesco Sisca, or of the publisher or printer that bore their family name, this poem was a “bilingual” collaboration — Calabrian dialect by the father, and Italian…