1 25 5 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/ded88d1266d7439c8495fd97fcb75df4.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=j5zTOb-YvdC1wz5CRtupD84XVg-tELoULP947yE0GmG6VL47AQlViznL1E4KDqrH0Ggc0uNm9WtV8Zb90yObGcxNsRgH9mjirPnBjgJPLFV%7EPGl9IJybdM8MzuMsQK%7EFsFlwovAhYIgFRPozkLdqDx2yxFWAuwX%7ET1iEENzbdUX0IW1Lodad07P-u5HEzpipRXRC9368p2JPfT7O4-ikZQR6B6U3OX-yOAhOzj%7EnwXDlag5wug6SJaKJx%7EUxPsqcYW1t-P%7E67gXQZdTGhBWTGgMUH7%7EO5zp4H%7EIh5FoSBK1IoUUfHs4P%7EP4KaVP60aOY%7EzosktLb5uRDZHTJz-Bx3Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 58b8550c2f8947b9291ecd46efecf3bf https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/1f8e43bd428bebd37328e950b74165a1.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=Li5Yje1bAg3vOpMh%7ETTdqATRQsrCqH%7ESe9A%7ESpbuIgTUuULYaVnudwPLP59%7ESsBaK3rJxAZkI4w-%7EfFlUl%7EmOgKciwD69uyuV74msxVU1GgLAyvQMshY6KCCuCw7hfgF3ZSuJkzrGmsnUdijbyNL-QDfWwg74ARMY0W67KvsF%7ELpEQpk3seXo0uYghiupkZGMQnhSx4O-07AHbtVS03brfAMt6zOO3nXix5n6gQnZG5ZTSj3SyS5KlKNmn0sOecHdR1HdgmWdFKEy5GAWaaHo3yO47JnkviPWtxXx0i3cCvAD9-hMzI3EFHDTLbPohC9ZkRwO0pz1ICB9k%7E4RWBzTw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 0e3266f8da37ac51833a81f105b3e9c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Talk Between Two Workers. Oakland: Man!, 1933. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Errico Malatesta Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 18x13cm; 28 p. Description An account of the resource This is the rare work in English in the collection (although I have a large number of works in English) because it is clearly a translation of a work of Malatesta's written in Italian, and following a well-worn formula of workers talking to each other, educating each other, as a pedagogical tool, rather than a speaker or writer more abstractly discussing political issues. Note the stamp of the bookseller who had this pamphlet available for sale: the Industrial Unionist Bookshop, at 96 East 10th Street in New York. No publication information. My information about publisher name, place of publication and date all derive from copies available for sale on the internet, which all bear the 1933 date, and have a drawing of Malatesta on the cover, and noting preface by Aurora Alleva, that is lacking in this copy. The New York Public Library, however, has a copy of this work published in London in a presumed publication in the early 1900s. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Crusaders Academy of Science Incorporated: Transychology , Part III "Secondary Spiritual Distortions" - "Divinatory Art," No. 36. Bronx: The Crusaders Academy of Science, 1932. Description An account of the resource I found this lecture series advertised in Il Messaggero della Salute, and brought it into the collection (although it is completely written in English) for reasons that will become clear. This brochure contains one "lecture" of The Crusaders Academy of Science, Incorporated: Constituted for the promotion and development of the spiritual and mental faculties, directed by the Masters of the Crusaders Order of the World, of the Masonic Society, q.v. Ah, Masons! Finally something familiar to students of Italian America, although "Masons" aren't to be found as a topic in the Routledge History or the Italian American Encyclopedia, but there is an excerpt from Michele Pane in Durante that speaks of a character who is a "Venerable of the Freemasons of the Mazzini Lodge." Inside this typescript or mimeogaphed brochure, undated but perhaps 1932, the seller to me opined because it discussed an upcoming Christmas 1932, there is advertised "Transychology," "the Ancient Mysteries" ("Revelation of the 'secrets' of the Oriental-Indian and Egyptian Masters"), Occultism ("Spiritualism-magnetism and Allied Sciences"), and "Projection and Psychic Levitation-Systems and Practices." The ad seems to be promoting "A Course of Superior Studies" compiled by Gaetano Russo, M.Ps.Sc., Director General of the Crusaders Order of the World. There follows episode No. 36 of the course, namely, "astrology-horoscopes." The cover contains a photograph of the Crusaders' "Administration Building" or headquarters, at 1857 Anthony Avenue, corner of Mt. Hope Place, in the Bronx. The building was previously the Shuttleworth mansion, built in 1896. This issue of a multi-issue course of study in an area of inquiry or endeavor not previously associated with Italian Americans - which, though in English, was advertised in a long-lived magazine written and published entirely in Italian! - is for many reasons, therefore, more than a little interesting. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Learning the languages: For Americans and Italians Subject The topic of the resource Grammars and dictionaries - at first, imported from Italy, ones teaching English to native Italian speakers - were later supplemented by "home-grown" (that is, made in America) grammars especially designed for Italian immigrants, not like the grammars of decades before, designed for Italians in Italy wanting to learn English. Description An account of the resource The “languages” here are, of course, both English and Italian. In ways that I could not begin to perceive when I started collecting works in Italian, it was by no means a one-way street - that is, with Italian immigrants just wanting to learn English, with Italian as the vehicle to ease their way into learning English. Indeed, the two efforts are intimately related. First comes the “pre-history” to the world of the late 19th/early 20th century immigrants to New York and elsewhere in the U.S., namely, a period earlier in the 19th century, when Americans wanted to learn Italian, whether in colleges or with private lessons. This effort starts with Lorenzo Da Ponte, who came to the United States in 1805, and whose impact in those years cannot be overstated. Beginning with Da Ponte in the early 19th century, and continuing throughout the century, Italians delighted in teaching Americans how to read, speak and write in Italian. This collection of poetry was gathered mostly as teaching material – grammars, readers and dictionaries – that were in widespread use in the United States, primarily in the Northeast. Da Ponte wrote and published simple dramas for his private students and for those at Columbia College, where he became its first professor of Italian in 1825. Da Ponte and his brother Carlo maintained a bookstore as well. They shipped such publications throughout the United States wherever Italian was taught. Italian exiles in mid-century taught Italian to Americans eager to learn the language. Much later, in the late 19th century, Augusto Bassetti, Angelo De Gaudenzi and Francesco Zanolini, developed their own grammars, dictionaries and readers specifically designed to teach English to Italian immigrants. But the goal was also stated to be (particularly in Bassetti’s case) to help Italians simultaneously improve their knowledge of standard Italian, and thus enable them to read the Italian-language newspapers and even more the book-length publications that would soon come rolling out of print shops in New York and San Francisco. In the early 20th century, Alfonso Arbib-Costa published a series of “lezione” books designed to help Italian natives to learn English, as well as English-speakers to learn Italian. Perhaps even more significantly, Arbib-Costa’s lesson books, and those of Alberto Pecorino, helped Italian immigrants who brought to America largely an oral language, more typically dialect than standard Italian, learn how to read standard Italian. This development created and sustained a class of readers for the newspapers and magazines, and ultimately, the critical mass necessary for the development of a literary culture. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Grammar of the Italian Language. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Simultaneously published in London by Richard James Kennett. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pietro Bachi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 19x12.5cm; 568 p. Description An account of the resource Born Ignazio Batolo, Bachi (b. Palermo, 1787; d. Boston, 1853) received his law degree at the University of Padua, but fled the country in opposition to Bourbon rule in 1815. He became instructor of Italian at Harvard in 1826 (a year after Lorenzo Da Ponte’s appointment at Columbia) not long after his arrival in the U.S., under the advocacy of George Ticknor, the first Smith Professor of Modern Languages, a major supporter of hiring native speakers for instructing modern languages; this occurred only two years after Bachi’s arrival in America. Reflecting the same trend as Da Ponte experienced, Americans were keen on learning Italian. As a result of Ticknor’s effort, Bachi was the first Italian-educated faculty member appointed at Harvard. A popular teacher, Bachi had as students Henry David Thoreau (for four years), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale, and James Russell Lowell. 1801-1850 English Italian grammar https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/4be53dd316ec5c6dd3f379b287282ff7.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=HopDMj8C2WPagetoGiR7pO%7Ej-vHNQssC7nPusn8fiAfx7y1sD5vPutn6-LaJZHp1ePFGYBZEV%7ESDrvey9a9ZcmrUpG1XTPvwufqzv2Z8cBbMbx36ALOxYYdK1NeMmzQq8HUMRkRRJRK%7EkBhdlAXUa8l4uqAhx6Wyp4vZfo8rn7XkuCVkPQPz4DYFGkZaRSgSX2dZsxAYF-HKjUG29IVmhYUizn9EB%7EcQ6b4rkmrnJaKnBd0nrx4PYWu%7EK6FZ7VI4jo8B30XHPVL-yAbdB41SLW6rqkIKbnkdf3s-IRd5pMVSCeo1f8ruvhRE5WzwXIkcJokgd0DOu6XPy7aJLw3fRg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 06ab3f2aeefa84eb6c87acb7d00babbe https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/c4c3a9729eb6d25051295eebde5a8ec4.jpg?Expires=1779321600&Signature=Kch%7EAdHBgy9GnDnRe3a2FKuD%7E5QLB4IH5WAoaBaJS9MY8qee7f-Iu5YfjIKpvT4u55R-AiSVR32BLGFaGmH81Dopvlx3J-FJX6P35hXx6eB9a5erO3n2xogF5377IIwb3nrtVCKCZnhcYsf96V-p9H89XCemiZrTiJaKd6PXgOt59pU325cbBMEeVUfLJKQom7U549Dykko9cUjheqjbazhVerQa4sVESa-fb8LJPsa5LB%7Elc8r8szf-5%7EvxIBlp7x%7EhVZsgLJDM6iUecYeO2A7fU0XgHfcSgdnla2zk%7ExEqdNRfQXo9JRTtuGM9%7EKSgYgACuLRxtDsMKengwdkyCg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 12bae89df6fbdc57405696ebd82527a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Società Libraria Italiana: The Italian Book Company Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939. Description An account of the resource The book opens with an adulatory preface by "Italian Book Co.," probably De Martino himself. This is one of the relatively few works published by the Italian Book Company in English, presumably to reach a wider audience of Italian American readers not so fluent in Italian as the publisher’s usual readers. From the photo (shot from below) of Mussolini on the cover, rather than an image of the ostensible subject of the book, we already realize that the publisher thought the author more important than the book’s subject. Indeed, the publisher describes this as a youthful work of Mussolini about the 14th–15th century Bohemian heretic, Jan Hus, one in which the dictator’s - not Hus's - “luminous genius is shown,” adding that this work shows Mussolini’s early perception that “the Italians of tomorrow will not be as the Italians of yesterday,” as Italy is “in a process of formation,” with the “powerful propulsion of his will power,” by which Mussolini has “changed the face of Italy, reconstructing the Second Empire of Rome.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benito Mussolini Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Italian Book Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 20 x 13.5cm; 151 p. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Società Libraria Italiana: The Italian Book Company Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Italian Cook Book: the Art of Eating Well. New York: Italian Book Co., 1919. Description An account of the resource This is the rare Italian Book Company book in English (Mussolini's biography of Jan Hus is the other in the Collection). This cook book - typical in some ways of IBC publications, mostly imported, about home and hearth - is much sought after, selling in the hundreds of dollars. Note, too, that this is an early date for the Società Libraria Italiana to leave out its name in Italian - usually the English name (Italian Book Company) comes right before or right after the Italian name. Note in the page of text reproduced that the English is not so idiomatic, the writer noting that "The Italians serve the spaghetti . . . at the beginning of the meal," rather than "Italians serve spaghetti . . at the beginning of a meal." And that pasta "seems to have pleased the taste of all the peoples of the earth." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maria Gentile Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Italian Book Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 18 x 14cm; 160 p. Language A language of the resource English 1911-1920 cooking English Italian Book Company - Società Libraria Italiana New York self-help