<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Anno III & IV. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 issues: Incomplete Anno III, IV- 1918, 1919: <br /><br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.<br /><br />This is a bound volume - the first of two - of 20 issues of the newspaper-magazine <em>Il Martello</em>, spanning the period from 1918-1919. This was bound by hand by a subscriber and great admirer of Tresca's - Augusto Lentricchia, and was a gift to me of Frank Lentricchia, novelist and Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies at Duke University.<br /><br />It includes important works like a novella of Arturo Giovannitti, "Come era nel principio ..." and frequent contributions from Vincenzo Vacirca, who himself founded several important magazines that are in the collection, <em>La Strada</em> and <em>Il Solco</em>, and other important radical writers, such as Ludovico Caminita. A poem by Efrem Bartoletti celebrating the appearance of <em>Il Martello</em> in December of 1917 graces the verso of the cover page of the January 1, 1918 issue (erroneously dated January 1, <em>1917</em>).<br /><p>That a reader of a review like <em>Il Martello</em> would lovingly gather issues into a homemade binding, beginning only a year after the magazine's founding in 1917, is a measure of the affection that Tresca’s followers felt for him and everything he did. An immigrant from Morollo, south of Rome, Augusto Lentricchia settled in Utica in the first decade of the 20th century, where he worked for the New York Central Railroad, from which he was fired several times for trying to organize other railroad workers to radical causes. Lentricchia was also a poet who wrote about radical issues; one of his poems was published in <em>Il Martello</em>. His bound diaries containing his poetry were donated by Professor Lentricchia to the Italian American Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.<br /><br />List of issues in this volume:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 (1 Gennaio [January] 1917 [sic]), <br />2 (16 Gennaio), <br />3 (16 Febbraio [February]), <br />4 (1 Marzo [March], <br />5 (16 Marzo), <br />6 (1 Aprile [April], <br />7 (15 Aprile), <br />8 (16 Maggio [May]), <br />9 (1 Giugno [June]), <br />10 (16 Giugno),<br />11 (1 Luglio [July]),<br />13 (1 Agosto [August]), <br />14 (16 Agosto), <br />15 (1 Settembre [September], <br />16 (1 Ottobre [October]), <br />17 (16 Ottobre), <br />19 (16 Novembre [November]), - <br /><br />incomplete Anno IV - 1919, Nos.<br />1 (1 Gennaio), <br />2 (16 Gennaio), <br />3 (1 Febbraio). </span></p>
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, <br />Anno II, IV - 1918-1919 (incomple)<br /><br /></strong></span></span><span><strong>New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919.<br /></span></strong></span>
<p>See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.<br /><br />Bound volume - the second of two - of 23 issues of the newspaper-magazine <em>Il Martello</em>, spanning the period from January 1918 (Volume 3, No. 1) to February 1919 (Volume 4, No. 3), with no post-February issues in the second, 1919 volume. This volume is largely duplicative -but in unfailing chronological order, unlike the other volume - of the first volume bound by Augusto Lentricchia and was a gift to me of Frank Lentricchia, novelist and Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies at Duke University.<br /><br /></p>
<p>That a reader of a review like <em>Il Martello</em> would lovingly gather issues into a homemade binding, beginning only a year after the founding of <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, is a measure of the affection that Tresca’s followers felt for him and everything he did. An immigrant from Morollo, south of Rome, Augusto Lentricchia settled in Utica in the first decade of the 20th century, where he worked for the New York Central Railroad, from which he was fired several times for trying to organize other railroad workers to radical causes. Lentricchia was also a poet who wrote about radical issues; one of his poems was published in <em>Il Martello</em>. His bound diaries containing his poetry were donated by Professor Frank Lentricchia to the Italian American Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.<br /><br />This volume includes:<br /><br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 1 - 1 Gennaio [January] 1917 [i.e. 1918]<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 2 - 16 Gennaio [January] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 3 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 4 - 1 Marzo [March] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 5 - 16 Marzo [March] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 6 - 1 Aprile [April] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, Numero Special<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 8 - 16 Maggio [May] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 9 - 1 Giugno [June] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 10 - 16 Giugno [June] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 11 - 1 Luglio [July] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 12 - 16 Luglio [July] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 13 - 1 Agosto [August] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 14 - 16 Agosto [August] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 15 - 1 Settembre [September] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 16 - 1 Ottobre [October] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 17 - 16 Ottobre [October] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 18 - 1 Novembre [November] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 19 - 16 Novembre [November] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 1 - 1 Gennaio [January] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 2 - 16 Gennaio [January] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 3 - 1 Febbraio [February] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, Supplemento al No. 3 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</p>
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 3. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Marzo [March] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
14 Marzo [March] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 2. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 28 Febbraio [February] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
28 Febbraio [February] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 1. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Gennaio [January] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
14 Gennaio [January] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VIII, No. 14. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 27 Aprile [April] 1922.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
27 Aprile [April] 1922
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VIII, No. 8. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 4 Marzo [March] 1922.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
4 Marzo [March] 1922
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 42. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 12 Dicembre [December] 1921.<br /></span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
12 Dicembre [December] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 24. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Luglio [July] 1921.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
19 Luglio [July] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919<br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 9. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Marzo [March] 1921.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Galleani and Caminita) was for anarcho-syndicalists. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous profile in <em>The New Yorker</em>. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
19 Marzo [March] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.</span></strong><br /></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1916, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943; the paper continued for a few more years, until 1946. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Galleani and Caminita) was for anarcho-syndicalists. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous profile in <em>The New Yorker</em>.<br /><br /><span>In 1923, </span><i>Il Martello</i><span> reached international distribution, being mailed throughout Italy. Tresca mailed his paper to subscribers in Italy without charging any money, according to Nunzio Pernicone in <em>Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel</em>. The Italian government responded by banning the importation of </span><i>Il Martello. </i>This was probably a "first" for an Italian-language American periodical's foray into the Italian market. (It's the converse of the banning of export of L'Asino from Rome to the United States that led to the "publication" in New York of the same magazine, with the same cartoons and stories but with advertisements from New York Italian businesses, not Roman ones.)<br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally. Still, there was plenty in Tresca's life - e.g., his affair with a 16-year old tutoring him in English - that merited personal disapproval and even condemnation with Galleanisti looking very hard.<br /><br />The collection includes:<br /><br /><div id="dublin-core-title" class="element">
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<p><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III - IV, 1918-1919 - 20 issues</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III - IV, 1918-1919 </a>- 23 issues<br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol.) 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol.) 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol. 7), No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a></p>
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Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
Italian
<strong><em>Grammatica-enciclopedia Italiana-Inglese per gli Italiani degli Stati Uniti</em></strong> [Italian-English grammar-encyclopedia for the Italians of the U.S.]. <strong>New York: Libreria Nuova Italia, ed., 1949.</strong>
See entries for the 1911 [1912] editions of this work, when a copy cost $1.25.<br /><br />This 1949 edition cost $2.25, a fairly modest increase given the passage of 38 years.<br /><br />Note that the publisher was no longer Nicoletti Bros. My guess is that when Nicoletti ceased to exist, or ceased to find it profitable to publish this work, the copyright passed to Pecorini himself, who lived to 1957, and Libreria Nuova Italia (copyright on verso of title page reading "New Italy Book Co.") was his own imprint.
Alberto Pecorini
1949
19x14cm; 480 p.
<strong><em>Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America</em>, Anno 5 [Facsimile]. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., 1919. <br /></strong>
See general entry for <em>Il Carroccio</em> for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
1919
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosoto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/324"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5, Vol. 9, No. 6 - Giugno [June] 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/325"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 6, Vol. 12, No. 3 - September 1920</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/327"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 12, Vol. 23 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/328"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 12, Vol. 24 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/329"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 25 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1927</a><em></em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/330"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 26 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/331"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 14, Vol. 27 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1928</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332"><em>,</em> Anno 14, Vol. 28 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/333"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 15, Vol. 29 - Gennaio [January] - Maggio [May] 1929 </a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334"><em>,</em> Anno 15, Vol. 30 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336"><em>,</em> Anno 16, Vol. 32 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1930</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/337"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 17, Vol. 33 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1931</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338"><em>,</em> Anno 17, Vol. 34 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1931</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/339"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 18, Vol. 35 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340"><em>,</em> Anno 18, Vol. 36 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1932</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/323"><em>Il Carroccio</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian
<strong><em>Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| </em>A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet</strong> [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. <strong>Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.</strong>
The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era. <br /><br />Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor. Carnevali's rapid acquisition of English was unusual; his poetry in English was quickly published in the U.S.<br /><br />After his debut published poem in 1918 in <em>The Forum</em>, Carnevali became a leading poetry figure in New York and then in Chicago, where he became an editor of <em>Poetry</em> magazine under the legendary Harriet Monroe, also in 1918. <br /><br />In 1920, he became associate editor of <em>Poetry.</em> <br /><br />His poetry appeared in 1934 in <em>A History of American Poetry</em>, along with that of Arturo Giovannitti, the other Italian American poet who had acquired English quickly and effortlessly<em>.<br /><br /></em>His admirers and friends included Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Kay Boyle. Even after his final return to Italy in 1922 when ill, and his death not long after, his reviews were published in several venues.<br /><br />As is evident, these letters were published long after his death. Gabriel Cacho Millet (1939-2016) was an Argentine writer who went to Europe as a correspondent for Latin American literature. He is credited not only with the "rediscovery" of Carnevali, but also a deeper appreciation of Jorge Luis Borges and Luigi Pirandello. <br /><br />Besides an excerpt in Durante, see Kay Boyle, ed., <em>The Autobiography of Emanuele Carnevali.</em>
Emanuel Carnevali
Gabriel Cacho Millet, ed.
La Casa Usher
1980
21 x 13cm; 207 p.
Italian
<strong><em>Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America</em></strong> [Italians in the United States]. <strong>New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1906.</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">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 “</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">gli Italiani all’estero”</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was an ambitious one, a collaboration with, and actually published by, the same publisher in the year following the more conventional </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">1905 Italian American Directory </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">(q.v.). <br /><br />Part I of this rare elephant folio work contains essays by what can be considered an all-star cast of Italian writers, all of whom are featured in the collection, from then inspector of immigration Adolfo Rossi on Italian manpower in the U.S., Alfonso Arbib-Costa on Italians in public schools, Alfredo Bosi, on the failure of the Italian colony in New York to establish a true Italian school, Bernardino Ciambelli on Columbus Day, and Amy Bernardy on the Italians of Boston. Part II comprises 290 of the 473-page total, and is a directory of advertisements and summaries of Italian American businesses. Included here is a description </span><span style="font-weight:400;">of Francesco Tocci and his Emporium Press, both of which publishers are represented in the Collection. There Tocci describes his goal of helping make Italian books available and popular among Americans as well as Italians. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">See the essay by Robert Viscusi, “Universal Exposition,” under "Essays" on the website, for a brilliant dissection of the multiple meanings and purposes of this volume.</span></p>
Ciambelli, et al.
Italian American Directory Co.
1906
39 x 30cm; 469 p.
Italian
<em><strong>Mischia sociale (da . . . alla Cooper Union)</strong></em> [Social Brawl (from . . . at Cooper Union)]. <strong>Brooklyn: Edizioni sociali, [1930].</strong>
An excerpt from this work is published in Durante. On April 6, 1930, in a public debate at Cooper Union in New York, Borghi participated in the debate on the theme "I problemi della rivoluzione italiana dopo l'abbattimento del fascismo" (the problems of the Italian revolution after the over throw of fascism). His antagonist was Vincenzo Vacirca, whose books and magazines are well represented in the Collection. Vacirca was, like Borghi, freed on bail. <br /><br />This copy is inscribed to Dr. Nicola Brunori, "amico e compagno [friend and companion]." Ezio Taddei had dedicated his 1943 work, <em>Alberi e casolari</em>, q.v., to Brunori, a beloved figure. This is the same Doctor Nicola Brunori who is the subject of <em>Brunori's Fortune</em>, excerpted in Durante in the entry on Valentini as part of that writer's <em>Il ricatto</em>, q.v. <em>Zarathustra</em>. After the debate, Borghi narrowly escaped arrest, an incident which he discusses in the final chapter of this book. <br /><br />The work ends with a statement from Immigrant Inspector John Kaba, reproduced in both Italian and English, discussing the warrant for Borghi's arrest and Kaba's opinion and wish that, without a passport, revoked because he was an anarchist, Borghi should be deported to Italy. Borghi is well represented in the Collection.
Armando Borghi
Edizioni sociali
[1930]
18.5 x 13cm; 246 p.
Italian
<em><strong>Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere</strong> </em>[Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. <strong>New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.</strong>
Vacirca’s anti-fascist biography of Mussolini covers the period from his growing up in poverty to his rise to “Il Duce” in 1925 and emperor in 1936. <br /><br />The bright pictorial cover (artist unknown) is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a red-eyed skull; the blood trailing from the skull’s base spells “Mussolini” for the cover title. <br /><br />There is a good discussion of the significance of the image of the "cadavere" of Mussolini in this work and more generally of Mussolini's body - even, as here, before his actual death - in historian Sergio Luzzatto's work, translated as <em>The Body of Il Duce</em> (New York: Owl, 2005).<br /><br />See discussion of the publisher, La Strada Publishing Co., in the description of <em>La Strada</em> magazine, q.v., started by Vacirca.
Vincenzo Vacirca
La Strada Publishing Co.
1942
19.5 x 13cm; 301 p.
Italian
<em><strong>Madre: dramma in 4 atti</strong></em> [Mothers: drama in 4 acts]. <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishig [sic] Co, 1931.</strong>
First produced in New York on April 19, 1931, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, <em>Madre</em> 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 <em>Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: the Idealism of the </em>Sovversivi <em>in the United States, 1890-1940</em> (New York: NYU Press, 2011), from which this description is largely drawn.<br /><br /><em>Madre</em> is the story of an Italian family torn apart by the advent of fascism, with older brother (an anti-fascist lawyer) battling with his younger, pro-fascist brother, and the mother bewildered that politics could be more important than family ties. Vacirca's point is that fascism's negative impacts extended beyond the political life of Italy to the personal, that is, the family. Ernesto Valentini (q.v.) wrote that <em>Madre</em> was a "pure revolutionary act of useful and effective propaganda."<br /><br />Vacirca was one of several radicals who understood theatre's social function, as both a source of entertainment and a political and educational tool, a means to invigorate Italian American cultural life and simultaneously help make the world better. Vacirca understood theatre's mission could and should be to cultivate a specifically revolutionary esthetic, to create an authentic "popular" theatre by the people and for the people, combining art and politics, education and entertainment, thought and action.<br /><br />For more on the life of the play's author, see entries here for <em>La Russia in fiamme</em> and the magazine <em>Il Solco, </em>this latter in the general entry for Jan.-Sept. 1927.
Vincenzo Vacirca
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
1931
18 x 13cm; 103 p.
Italian
<em><strong>La Russia in fiamme</strong> </em>[Russia in Flames]. <strong>New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The subject of</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> La Russia in fiamme</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian Revolution, from its inception in 1917. <br /><br />The first few pages feature quotations in French (Romain Rolland) and English (Longfellow), as well as from Maxim Gorky, who is quoted in Italian, calling for the complete overthrow of the Bolshevik regime </span><span style="font-weight:400;">whose censorship of Gorky’s newspaper strained their relations.<br /><br />Vacirca (b. Ragusa, 1886 - d. Roma 1956) was surely one of the most colorful characters among the Italian American left and a prominent socialist agitator (see discussion of his American activities, in the magazines <em>La Strada </em>(q.v.) and, in 1927, <em>Il Solco </em>(q.v.), for example). Condemned for subversive publishing, he emigrated to Brazil in 1908, where he directed the daily <em>L'Avanti! </em>Arrested and expelled from Brazil, he emigrated to Argentina. Imprisoned there, he was released by the intervention of a socialist deputy, and fled through Italy to Austria. Expelled from Austria, he went to the U.S. Like Gaetano Salvemini (q.v.) and others, he was also deprived of his citizenship by Mussolini. All along the way, he published several social novels. In 1919, after publication of this work, he returned to Italy, where he was quickly arrested.<br /><br />In America, among other writing and editing roles between 1913 and 1919, he led <em>Il Nuovo Mondo</em>. The editorship of <em>La Parola </em>(its name changed in 1920, with Vacirca still involved, to <em>La Parola del Popolo</em>) was handed over to Vacirca (and Alberico Molinari, q.v.) in 1920. <br /><br />Between 1921 and 1924, he was pursued relentlessly by the fascists, and as noted, he was deprived of Italian citizenship. Matteotti sent him on a mission to London in 1924. Condemned to five years imprisonment by a judge in Siracusa, Vacirca returned to the U.S., where the fascists did not cease to pursue him.<br /><br />He was also blessed with a talented wife, Clara, who published a number of her novels and stories in a variety of journals, including (surprisingly enough, given its right-wing politics) <em>Il Carroccio</em>, which is well represented in the Collection, and where at least one story of Clara's may be found. </span></p>
Vincenzo Vacirca
Casa Editrice "I Giovani"
1919
19.5 x 13cm; 221 p.
Italian
<em><strong>L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero Il segreto di Pulcinella</strong></em> [The Attempt on Mussolini: or the Secret of Pulcinella]. <strong>New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.</strong>
The premiere performance of this play opened at the Central Opera House, located at 205 East 67th Street in New York on Sunday, December 13, 1925. It was based on actual historical circumstances — namely, a staged <em>attentato</em>, or attempt (to assassinate Mussolini). <br /><br />When its opening was announced in advance, the Fascist Party ambassador to the U.S. asked the State Department, which considered anarchists like Tresca to be troublesome “Reds,” to prevent the performance from taking place. FBI agents and Bomb Squad officials invaded the theatre on that opening night, and stopped the opening curtain on the specious grounds that the performance would violate New York’s Sunday “Blue Laws.” <br /><br />Tresca took the stage, faulted the government’s prohibition for acting at the behest of Mussolini, whose fascist dictatorship, he exclaimed, was in the thrall of high-finance capitalism. <br /><br />The New York press, which normally disapproved of anarchists like Tresca, expressed sympathy in this case for the anti-fascists, raising questions as to why a foreign government was being placated by American authorities in this way. <br /><br />The claimed attempt on Mussolini’s life was the pretext for the repressive “emergency laws” in Italy of November 1926.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
1925
22 x 14.5cm; 32 p.
Italian
English
<strong><em>Il cristianesimo e la questione sociale (contraddittorio Tresca-Griglio): conferenza tenuta il 14 luglio 1922 a New Jork</em></strong>,<strong><em> alla Manhattan Hall, ad iniziativa del Comitato pro vitime politiche </em></strong>[Christianity and the Social Question (Tresca-Griglio Debate): Lecture Held on July 14, 1922 at New York at Manhattan Hall at the initiation of the Committee for Political Victims].<strong> Roma: Stab. Pol. Ed. Romana, 1922.</strong>
This is a report of a debate between famously anti-clerical Carlo Tresca and the Rev. Griglio.<br /><br />It is one of a fair number of political events that took place in New York (in Manhattan Hall, in this case) or elsewhere in the U.S. that resonated enough in Italy for a publisher there to want to publish an account of it.
[Carlo Tresca]
Rev. Griglio
Stab. Pol. Ed. Romana
1922
19.5 x 13.5cm; 48 p.
Italian
<strong><em>Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti</em> </strong>[With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. <strong>Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.</strong>
Francesco Durante refers to Teresi (b. Alia (Palermo), Italy 1875 - d. Rochester, NY 1971) as an Italian-American intellectual. He came to the U.S. in 1907, earned a law degree here, and became a bank teller in Rochester. He wrote the preface to Bellalma Forzato-Spezia's <em>Il vate etneo</em>, q.v. His biographer (Claudia Giurintano, in <em>Socialismo romantico in Matteo Teresi</em>) calls him a "socialist romantic."<br /><br />This work is a collection of articles on diverse topics, including for example, "in Defense of Prostitution: Contributed to the Campaign against Venereal Disease."<br /><br />Teresi's other Italian works include<em> L'ultima menzogna religiosa-La Democrazia Cristiana</em> [The Ultimate Religious Falsehood - the Christian Democracy] (Palermo and New York, 1910) and <em>Il sogno di un emigrato </em>[The Dream of an Immigrant] (Rochester, 1932). See Schiavo 1966-67. He also published work in English, including <em>Love and Health: The Problem of Better Breeding for the Human Family </em>(New York, 1914), a eugenics treatise arguing for "the necessity and the justice of laws forbidding matrimony among degenerates."<br /><br />Andrea Camillieri's 2011 novel, <em>La setta degli angeli</em> [The Sect of the Angels] is based on his life, describing a scandal in Sicily in 1901 in which the lawyer Matteo Teresi discovers that in his country there exists a very secret sect made up of priests and other notables.
Matteo Teresi
Casa ed. D'Antoni
1925
21.5 x 14.5cm; 326 p.
Italian
<strong><em>Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America</em>, Anno 18, Vol. 36.</strong><strong> New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1932. </strong>
This six-month period of <em>Il Carroccio</em> in 1932 contains essays by Mussolini in nearly every monthly issue, as well as pro-fascist poetry in several issues by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, the poet laureate of Arkansas, and essays by Edward Corsi, Giuseppe Marconi, and other well-known Italians or Italian Americans who were not known as pro-fascist.<br /><br />See both the description in the 1915 volume (<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a>) and in the "main entry," the last on the list below, with a hyperlink, for its history and place in Italian American publishing. <br /><br />That a title page from a June 1934 issue appears in this volume that actually begins in 1932 is confusing, and perhaps due to a binding error.
Agostino De Biasi
Il Carroccio Publishing Co.
Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1932
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/423"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5 [Facsimile] - 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/324"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5, Vol. 9, No. 6 - Giugno [June] 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/325"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 6, Vol. 12, No. 3 - September 1920</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/327"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 12, Vol. 23 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/328"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 12, Vol. 24 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/329"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 25 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1927</a><em></em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/330"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 26 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/331"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 14, Vol. 27 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1928</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332"><em>,</em> Anno 14, Vol. 28 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/333"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 15, Vol. 29 - Gennaio [January] - Maggio [May] 1929 </a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334"><em>,</em> Anno 15, Vol. 30 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/335"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 16, Vol. 31 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1930</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336"><em>,</em> Anno 16, Vol. 32 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1930</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/337"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 17, Vol. 33 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1931</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338"><em>,</em> Anno 17, Vol. 34 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1931</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/339"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 18, Vol. 35 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/323"><em>Il Carroccio</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian
<strong><em>Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America</em>, Anno 18, Vol. 35. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932.</strong>
The title of one essay by a non-Italian (P.W. Wilson) - "Two Men Who Stand As Symbols - Pius XI and Mussolini," stands out.<br /><br />Some poems by one Anna Lannutti in the December issue stand out for the frequent phenomenon we have seen, of the politics of writers not necessarily being consistent with that of the magazine: Lannutti was the dedicatee of inscriptions by Riccardo Cordiferro of copies of several of his works (<em>Il prisco cavaliere</em> and <em>La vendetta</em>, q.v.), also in the 1930s. Of course, that fact does not tell us per se that Lannutti's politics were those of the left-leaning Cordiferro and <em>La Follia</em>.<br /><br />See both the description in the first entry below (<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326">Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a>) and in the "main entry" (1915-1932) at the end for <em>Il Carroccio</em> for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
Agostino De Biasi
Il Carroccio Publishing Co.
Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/423"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5 [Facsimile] - 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/324"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5, Vol. 9, No. 6 - Giugno [June] 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/325"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 6, Vol. 12, No. 3 - September 1920</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/327"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 12, Vol. 23 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/328"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 12, Vol. 24 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/329"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 25 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1927</a><em></em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/330"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 26 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/331"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 14, Vol. 27 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1928</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332"><em>,</em> Anno 14, Vol. 28 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/333"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 15, Vol. 29 - Gennaio [January] - Maggio [May] 1929 </a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334"><em>,</em> Anno 15, Vol. 30 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/335"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 16, Vol. 31 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1930</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336"><em>,</em> Anno 16, Vol. 32 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1930</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/337"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 17, Vol. 33 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1931</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/338"><em>,</em> Anno 17, Vol. 34 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1931</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340"><em>,</em> Anno 18, Vol. 36 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1932</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/323"><em>Il Carroccio</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian
<strong><em>Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America</em>, Anno 17, Vol. 34.</strong><strong> New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1931. </strong>
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a>) and in the hyperlink for the "main entry" at the end (1915-1932) for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
Agostino De Biasi
Il Carroccio Publishing Co.
Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1931
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/326"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/423"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5 [Facsimile] - 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/324"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 5, Vol. 9, No. 6 - Giugno [June] 1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/325"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 6, Vol. 12, No. 3 - September 1920</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/327"><em>Il Carroccio, </em>Anno 12, Vol. 23 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/328"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 12, Vol. 24 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/329"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 25 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1927</a><em></em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/330"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 13, Vol. 26 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/331"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 14, Vol. 27 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1928</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/332"><em>,</em> Anno 14, Vol. 28 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/333"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 15, Vol. 29 - Gennaio [January] - Maggio [May] 1929 </a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/334"><em>,</em> Anno 15, Vol. 30 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/335"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 16, Vol. 31 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1930</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/336"><em>,</em> Anno 16, Vol. 32 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1930</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/337"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 17, Vol. 33 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1931</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/339"><em>Il Carroccio</em>, Anno 18, Vol. 35 - Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1932</a><em><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340">Il Carroccio</a></em><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/340"><em>,</em> Anno 18, Vol. 36 - Luglio [June] - Dicembre [December] 1932</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/323"><em>Il Carroccio</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian