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Il banchetto dei cancri [The Banquet of the Evil Ones]. New York: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1925.
This is a collection of anti-fascist articles Borghi had published in the then New York-based Il Proletario about Matteotti’s assassination by Mussolini’s blackshirts. It is introduced by his preface written from Paris in June 1925. Both the…
Mischia sociale (da . . . alla Cooper Union) [Social Brawl (from . . . at Cooper Union)]. Brooklyn: Edizioni sociali, [1930].
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…
Poesie napoletane [Neopolitan Poetry]. Napoli: Cav. Ciro Russo, 1949.
With a preface by Pasquale Ruocco. Cenerazzo was an actor and author of theatre, poetry, songs and Neapolitan caricatures, who arrived in the U.S. at the age of 12. Self-taught, he collaborated with Francesco Ricciardi, performing duets and…
Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.
This work contains Giovannitti’s speech (entitled “Davanti ai Giurati di Salem, Massachusetts” [Before the Jurors of Salem, Mass.]) in 1912 to the jurors in the trial at which he, Joseph Ettor and Joseph Caruso were accused of the murder of Anna Lo…
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…
Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni [Life: magazine of nowadays]. New York: Vita Publishing Co., September - October 1915.
Managed by Flavio Venanzi. An extremely uncommon and short-lived radical journal, edited (and with numerous contributions by) the important IWW activist-dramatist-poet Arturo Giovannitti. Vita appears to have been seeking to emulate, for an…
Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni [Life: magazine of nowadays], Anno 1, No. 1. New York: Vita Publishing Co., 1 Settembre [September] 1915.
Managed by Flavio Venanzi. An extremely uncommon and short-lived radical journal, edited (and with numerous contributions by) the important IWW activist-dramatist-poet Arturo Giovannitti. Vita appears to have been seeking to emulate, for an…
Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni [Life: magazine of nowadays], Anno 1, No. 3. New York: Vita Publishing Co., 1 Ottobre [October] 1915.
This magazine was managed by Flavio Venanzi, whose writings are gathered in another work in the Collection, Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921. A short-lived radical…
I sotterranei di New York [The Undergrounds of New York]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1915.
This novel is the 16th of 19 or 20 that Ciambelli authored over a long and productive career. Two of the others, La trovatella di Mulberry Street and I misteri di Mulberry Street (this latter in a facsimile copy only), are in the Collection. I have a…
Il martire del dovere, ovvero Giuseppe Petrosino - dramma in quattro atti [The Martyr to Duty, or Giuseppe Petrosino - a drama in four acts] [Reprint]. Napoli: Tullio Pironti, 2009 [n.d.].
One act of this recovered (by Durante) play is reproduced in Durante.Giuseppe Petrosino was the first head of the Italian squad of the New York City Police Department, and in charge of investigating the Mafia and its crimes in New York. On…
La trovatella di Mulberry Street [The Foundling of Mulberry Street]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1919.
Ciambelli (b. Lucca, 1862; d. New York, 1931) was the most celebrated and prodigious novelist — as many as eight novels of his were in print and for sale at the bookstore of Il Progresso Italo-Americano (advertisement, July 5, 1896) — as well as…
I misteri di Mulberry Street [The Mysteries of Mulberry Street] [Facsimile]. New York: Frugone & Balletto, [1893].
Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in translation.Tipografia del "Bollettino della Sera"; notation of each of 37…
Lu sonnu di Monsignuri X: poimettu in lingua siciliana [The Sonnets of Monsignor X: Short Poem in Sicilian]. Brooklyn: Tip. Ital. del Rinascimento, 1912.
Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well as an accomplished dialect poet who began to publish verses in the literary and political magazine,…
L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero Il segreto di Pulcinella [The Attempt on Mussolini: or the Secret of Pulcinella]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.
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 attentato, or attempt (to…
Il Martello [The Hammer]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.
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 — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 9. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Marzo [March] 1921.
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 — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 24. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Luglio [July] 1921.
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 — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 42. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 12 Dicembre [December] 1921.
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 — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VIII, No. 8. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 4 Marzo [March] 1922.
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 — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VIII, No. 14. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 27 Aprile [April] 1922.
See the general entry for Il Martello 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…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 1. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Gennaio [January] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello 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…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 2. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 28 Febbraio [February] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello 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…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol 28, No. 3. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Marzo [March] 1943.
See the general entry for Il Martello 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…