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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 I misteri di Mulberry Street (this latter in a facsimile copy only), are in the Collection. I have a…
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…
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 Nature.This copy hold interest for another reason: note the book's owner's name on the title/half-title…
"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 and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (5 volumes, published after English…
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 publications.In 1915, he was a second in a duel for the "cold and Nordic" anarchist lawyer Francesco Saverio…
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 1921) was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia from…
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 in the U.S. On the verso of the title page is "copyright 1909 by Prof. Giuseppe Cadicamo." Cadicamo…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella/Soc. Tipografica Italiana, 1921.
Ludovico (really Michele) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had one of the lengthiest, most varied and colorful lives of all the Italian anarchists in America, starting or writing a number of newspapers (with politics ranging from left…
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 evening with an editor of Il Corriere d’America. The sight of the electric sign at 47th Street and…
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 Edmondo Rossoni in the Federazione Socialista Italiana and as editor of Il Proletario. The earlier…
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…
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…
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 U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem…
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 held in Brooklyn in 1930 (and elsewhere, e.g., Toronto) in which the title poem was recited (and…
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 (Cosenza) 14 December 1930 in the house of Antonio Meringolo in Brooklyn.See the full description of…
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 an Italian tragedian who, beginning in 1907, toured in the U.S. (after having done so for years…
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 ammirazione/Riccardo Cordiferro/ 22 gennaio, 1933."Of interest is that Lannutti's verses had just appeared in the…
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 of Italy in 1840s & 1850s. This comic satire — the title is a play on words, as “prisco” means…
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 with permission of New San Francisco Magazine.See discussion of this work in the essay by Francesco…
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 D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.Note, on the title page, that this…
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, 1932 and (at Cooper Union) on January 6, 1929 - and published here in 1947 by the L’Adunata dei…