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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…
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…
Il primato degli italiani nella storia e nella civiltà americana: il breviario degli italiani d'America [The Preeminence of Italians in American History and Civilization: a Reference Guide of Italians in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, [1925].Branchi was an Italian who published his work both in the old country and in the U.S. For a full bio of Branchi, see entry on Così parlò Mister…
"Dagoes": novelle transatlantiche ["Dagoes": Transatlantic Stories]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1927.Note the inscription of this copy by the author "al Professore Guglielmo Ferrero." Ferrero (b. 1871 — d. 1942) was an Italian historian, journalist…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other…
Rosmunda [Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1915. Rosmunda is the rare example of a screenplay written in the Italian community.Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1887 - d. New York…
Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.A string-tied binding, like this one, and with deckled foredge, was an expensive way to produce books, and thus unusual in books published by Italians…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella & Co., 1921.Ludovico (really Michele, but he took the name of his deceased brother after the latter's death) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had…
Obici: biografia [Obici: Biography]. New York: Tipografia Ed. Scarlino, 1943."Impressioni" of novelist Italo Stanco follows at end. Caminita describes the source of inspiration for this biography: walking up Broadway one…
La tecnica industriale e la rivoluzione proletaria [Industrial Technique and the Proletarian Revolution]. Brooklyn: Libreria dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1922.On the rear cover is a list of newspapers and magazines published by the I.W.W., in English, Italian and 7 other languages. Giuseppe Cannata succeeded…
Il tramonto di Bacunin [The Decline of Bakunin]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the…
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria]. Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.This work, published by the book arm of the Italian-language Argentinian newspaper, La Voce dei Calabresi, commemorates and reflects a literary soiree…
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria].Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.With a translation (from Calabrese into Italian) by F. Greco, this recounts an evening soiree given in honor of Cordiferro by his friends from Acri…
Ermete Novelli: Conferenza letta la sera del 27 Aprile 1919 alla "Irish Federation Hall" di New York per l'inaugurazione del "Circolo Filodrammatica Ermete Novelli" [Ermete Novelli: lecture read the evening of 27 April 1919 at "Irish Federation Hall" of New York for the opening of the "Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli."] New York: Manhattan Printing Co., 1919.As the title of this work explains, this talk was given by Cordiferro at the opening of the Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli.Ermete Novelli was…
La vendetta: lirica in versi liberi [Vendetta: lyrics in free verse]. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1933.Inscribed by author, as with the copy of Il prisco cavaliere in the collection, to the "scrittrice [writer] Anna Lannutti, con sincera…
Scugnizzo: poemetto napoletano [Street urchin: short Neapolitan poem]. New York: Coccè Press, [1924].Inscribed to "Al poeta Armando Massa, con sincera e cordiale amici fa'a, con viva ammrazione, Riccardo Cordiferro, N.Y. 21 Giugno 1924."
Il prisco cavaliere [The Old Horseman]. New York: F. Sparacino; "La Follia di New York," 1924.This copy inscribed by author to the writer Anna Lannutti in 1933, like La vendetta. This copy lacks covers or a title page. This work tells a story…
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…
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…
Due conferenze: chi siamo e che cosa vogliamo: patria e religione [Two Lectures: Who We Are and What do We Want: Homeland and Religion]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.Due conferenze includes two of D'Andrea's public speeches delivered during her lecture tours around the country - given in New York City on March 20,…