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Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani nel Nord America [Journalism of the Emigrant Italians in North America]. Chicago: Casa Editrice del giornale “L’Italia,” 1909.
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…
Sotto il segno del littorio I: La genesi del fascismo [Under the Sign of the Lictors I: The origin of fascism]. Chicago: Libreria Sociale, 1933.
The stunning front and back covers of Sotto il segno were illustrated by Fort Velona (b. Calabria, 1893 - d. New York, 1965), a socialist, labor organizer as well as cartoonist, who became best known for his anti-fascist cartoons, reproduced widely…
Memorie di vita di tempeste sociali [Recollections of a Life in Social Storms]. Chicago: A cura del Comitato "Vittorio Buttis," 1940.
The gorgeous cover art is by Fort Velona, one of the great graphic artists (see Sotto il segno del littorio, q.v.) and labor organizers active in leftist causes. The preface is by radical activist Angelica Balabanoff, q.v. The title page of this work…
Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre [Only the Elimination of Neutrality will be able Suddenly and for Always to Stop Wars]. Chicago: Italian-American Publishing Co., 1920.
As he did in his work on Italian-American journalism, q.v., Carnovale provides at the end of this pamphlet several pages of, as translated from the Italian, "judgments of American newspapers on my bilingual book, Why Italy Entered into the Great War…
Il supremo ideale umano raggiunto [The Supreme Ideal Human Reached]. Chicago: [n.p.], 1926.
One of the odder publications of Carnovale, a journalist whose most important work, also in the collection, is Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani del Nord America. Carnovale seems to have prided himself on the breadth of genres in which to…
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 reasons. This is a large-format, 336-page commemorative edition for the 50th anniversary of the newspaper whose…
Directory of Italian-Americans in Commerce and Professions-1937. Chicago: Continental Press, 1937.
First Edition [stated]; ex-libris copy (The Free Library of Philadelphia). Detailed directory by State and major City. Promises a bigger and better 1938 such Directory, but I have not found evidence that one was in fact published.
La morale di Arlecchino [The Moral of Arlecchino]. Chicago: Tip. "La Parola", [n.d.]
While not a play as such, this small pamphlet, first published in Treviso in 1898, tells the dramatic tale of the troubles of an oppressed, slow-thinking comedic servant, a harlequin in the commedia dell'arte style of melodrama, a method used by…
Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.
This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jurty by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate Eugene Debs on September 12, 1918.Note the compliance with a legal requirement of a representation…
L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica [The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della Industrial Workers of the World, [c. 1922].
The English language original of this 1920 work remains in print in a fifth edition. It has been translated into 8 languages. This translation from the English-language original was intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
Unionismo industriale e trade-unionismo: può un socialista e industrialista far parte dell'A.F. of L.?: resoconto stenografico del contradittorio tra [Ettor] and [Caroti] tenutosi a New York il 26 Marzo 1911 [Industrial Unionism and Trade Unionism: Can a socialist and industrialist belong to the A[merican] F[ederation] of L[abor]? Stenographic account of the debate between Joseph J. Ettor and Arthur Caroti held in New York on the 26th of March 1911]. Chicago: I.W.W., [1911].
In the year following this “debate” between the revolutionary trade unions of the I.W.W. (and the Federazione) and the reformist A.F. of L., Joseph Ettor became one of the leaders of the Lawrence “Bread and Roses” strike of 1912. It was fateful that…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].
The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of…
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. Ruotolo was a sculptor, and teacher at and co-founder of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School in New York…
Che cosa e l'I.W.W.?: una candida dichiarazione dei suoi principii, scopi e metodi [What is the I.W.W.? A candid declaration of its principles, scope and methods]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della I.W.W., 1923.
This is the Italian language version, so stated, of an English language publication "What is the I.W.W.?" Translated by Mario De Ciampis from the English original. De Ciampis was the author of the authoritative short treatise on the history of…
Il capitale: semplificato e volgarizzato ad uso degli operai [Capital: Simplified and Popularized for the Use of Workers]. Chicago: La Parola Printing & Publishing House, 1911.
This abridged and simplified version of Marx's foundational text of communism is preceded by a short explanation of Marx's life and works prepared by Giuseppe Bertelli, editor of La Parola dei Socialisti. This is volume 22 of the "Biblioteca de La…
La crisi del socialismo [The Crisis of Socialism]. Chicago: Ed. a cura de "Il Proletario", 1922.
A text by anarcho-syndicalist Enrico Meledandri, with sections titled, translated here, “The Fate of Socialism,” “Inert Maximalism,” “Scientific Socialism,” and “Misery and Revolution.” Note that the same printer’s mark of the I.W.W. appears on the…
La bandierina di Carlo Marx: dramma in un atto [The Pennant of Karl Marx: drama in one act]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., [1917?]
It is unclear if this play, which is noted in Durante's text but not his bibliography, was ever produced. It reflects the ideal of international solidarity of the proletariat. Born into a family of Italian landed proprietors, Molinari (b. 1876- d.…
Le teorie di Cesare Lombroso: spiegate agli operai [The Theories of Cesare Lombroso, explained for workers]. Chicago: Edito a cura della "LIBRERIA SOCIALE", 1920.
The "secondo migliaio [second thousand]" noted on the cover and title page suggest this was a popular work. Specific issues discussed, after a biography of Lombroso, are "Delinquent Man," "Lombroso and the Man of Genius," "Lombroso and the…
Madre: dramma in 4 atti [Mothers: drama in 4 acts]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishig [sic] Co, 1931.
First produced in New York on April 19, 1931, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Madre remains one of the best-known anti-fascist plays written and produced in America by Italians. It is discussed at some length by historian Marcella Bencivenni in…
A Primer of Civics: Manuale di cittadinanza: designed for the guidance of the immigrant. Chicago: Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1918.
The author, a Bohemian immigrant to the United States, began this series with an English-Bohemian version published in 1912, then English only (1912), English-Polish (1914), and English-Lithuanian (1915), just prior to this English-Italian version in…
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 primacy of workers over capitalists. Years later, May Day celebrations were replaced by more sedate "Labor…
Il Proletario [The Worker]. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923-1924.
The I.W.W. Italian language newspaper, Il Proletario, has a glorious and lengthy history of many decades and almost unique importance in the Italian American non-anarchist left. It was started by Italian socialists in 1896 in Pittburgh, and soon…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924 (Vol. 6) - Dicembre [December] 1929 (Anno XI).
Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- Prominente Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 6, No. 55. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924.
For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor anti-fascist, nor fascist, nor bourgeois, see the general entry:Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 6, No. 57. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Marzo [March] 1924.
For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor anti-fascist, nor fascist, nor bourgeois, see the general entry:Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista…