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Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti [The Italian American Experience]. New York: Arno Press, 1975.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…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti: L'emigrazione e l'opera degli italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America Atti del III Symposium di Studi Americani Firenze, 27-29 Maggio 1969. Firenze: Istituto di Studi Americani Universita degli studi di Firenze, 1969.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…
Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.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…
Anima rerum [The Spirit of Things]. Firenze: G. Barbera, 1924.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…
Premiata fabbriche di armoniche [Prizewinning Accordion Factory]. Firenze: Borrani - Firenze, 1928.This trade catalogue contains glorious color illustrations of accordions made at the center of world-wide accordion manufacture for more than 150…
Andrea Ragusa: editore-libraio italiano a New York dal 1931 al 1974 [Andrea Ragusa: publisher/bookseller in New York from 1931 to 1974]. Firenze: Ed. Polistampa, 2004.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…
America in pantofole: un impero senza imperialisti| Ragguagli| intorno alla trasformazione degli Stati Uniti| dopo le guerre mondiali [America in Slippers: an empire without imperialists: pieces of information about the transformation of the United States after the world wars]. Firenze: Vallechi Ed., 1950.Director of the Casa Italiana at Columbia during the fascist era, Prezzolini is mostly remembered as a fascist sympathizer. His views nevertheless…
Ai margini della lingua [On the Edge of Language]. Firenze: G.C.Sansoni, 1947.Menarini (b. Bologna 1901 - d. Bologna 1984) was a distinguished Italian linguist who, though he did not attend college, was a scholarly researcher…
Catalogo Illustrato della premiata fabbrica di armoniche: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New-York, N.Y. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Prizewinning Accordion Factory: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New York, NY]. Firenze: Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze, [1890s].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…
America amara [Bitter America]. Firenze: Sansoni, 1940.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…