The papers of the honoree of the event on the occasion of his 60th birthday, long-time labor leader Giuseppe D. Procopio, are at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
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…