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This is the Arno Press (New York Times) reprint of the original work (also in the collection, q.v.).This volume includes Pietro Russo's important and oft-cited "La stampa periodica italo-americana," a basic work for understanding the Italian-American…

This is a fine early collection of essays by both Italian American and Italian scholars about the emigration and work of Italians in the U.S. The essays arise from a symposium of American studies at Florence in May 1969, very soon after the beginning…

The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era. Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor.…

This is an earlier work published by Varvaro, a not unimportant Italian poet of the period known as a “poeta modernissimo.” See description of "San Giovannino" for more of the life of this upper class Sicilian immigrant, and how I came to acquire a…

This trade catalogue contains glorious color illustrations of accordions made at the center of world-wide accordion manufacture for more than 150 years: in Castelfidardo, Italy, where Paolo Soprani had been "since 1863." While the catalogue itself is…

Introduction by Paolo Bagnoli; this copy has a label stuck on back cover: S.F. Vanni-Publishers & Booksellers, 30 W 12 St., NYC. Author Ragusa was professor of Italian at Columbia University for most of her career, linked to the Casa Italiana at…

Director of the Casa Italiana at Columbia during the fascist era, Prezzolini is mostly remembered as a fascist sympathizer. His views nevertheless remain useful as a measure of the prejudices against Italian Americans by educated Italians of his…

Menarini (b. Bologna 1901 - d. Bologna 1984) was a distinguished Italian linguist who, though he did not attend college, was a scholarly researcher into Italian jargon and the Bolognese dialect, among other specialties, publishing in Lingau Nostra,…

Accordions made by this Italian and American company - at this time based on Mulberry Street in Manhattan - continue to be sold by many dealers, and the Baldoni family still has some involvement, though not in New York. On the cover, on which is…

Cecchi was a literary and arts critic and writer, born in Firenze, who worked there and in Rome. He was a friend both of Giovanni Pappini, philosopher and writer, and of Giovanni Gentile, the "philosopher of fascism." Durante notes that Cecchi was…