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La Strada, rivista mensile di cultura popolare [The Street: monthly review of popular culture], Anno 1, No. 4. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., Settembre [September] 1937.
Alberi e casolari [Trees and Barns]. New York: Edizione in esilio, 1943.Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895; d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a…
Aneliti e singulti. Medaglioni [Yearnings and Sobs. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1935.This work was published in Newark by the Adunata dei Refrattari, the successor to the Cronaca Sovversiva led by Raffaele Schiavina (Max Sartin) after…
Berneri in Ispagna [Berneri in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1937.Deported to Italy from the U.S. in 1919 with his leader, Luigi Galleani, author Schiavina returned illegally to the U.S. in 1928 using the name Max…
C'è posta per voi, Mr. Brown! [There's Mail for You, Mr. Brown!]. Roma: Ed. Di Cultura Sociale, 1953.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la rivoluzione sociale [Against War, Against Peace, for the Social Revolution]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [c. 1930]This work contains two essays of Galleani's, Per la guerra, per la neutralita o per la pace? (pp. 5-60) and Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la…
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia…
Ho rinunciato alla libertà [I've Given Up Liberty]. Milano: Le edizioni sociali, 1950.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
Il mio primo maestro: poemetto di Onorio Ruotolo [My First Master: a short poem of Onorio Ruotolo]. New York: La Lucerna, 1948.Inscribed in 1951 on the verso of the title page by Ruotolo "al caro amico Hugo Rolland...[to {my} dear friend Hugo Rolland . . . " This is copy no.…
Il Presidente Scoppetta, ovvero La Società della Madonna della Pace [President Scoppetta, or The Society of Our Lady of Peace (from its founding to its dissolution)]. Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1927.This parody by Seneca (b. Benevento, 1890 - d. Philadelphia, 1952), a professor of languages at the University of Pennsylvania, reflects the bitter…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part…
Il sistema rappresentativo e l'ideale [The Representative System and the Ideal]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1945.While published in Newark, this work was printed in France at the "Imprimerie Commerciale de la Tribune Républicaine, Saint-Étienne".For a fuller bio…
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…
La fine dell' anarchismo? [The End of Anarchism?] New York: Ed. curata da vecchi lettori di Cronica Sovversiva, 1925.This is in part the transcript of an interview between socialist and anarchist writer and attorney for the anarchists, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and…
La Russia in fiamme [Russia in Flames]. New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian…
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…
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…
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…
Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere [Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.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.…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with…
Poesie di Thomas Fragale [Poems of Thomas Fragale]. Kansas City: Tipografia Mario Porretti, [1929].Born in 1855, Fragale emigrated from a town near Catanzaro in Calabria in 1892. He wrote poetry while pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hammondton,…
Semiramis [FACSIMILE]. New York: [n.p.], 1922.
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b.…