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This "diario," with both dated and undated entries in November 1917 through the same month in 1918, is a memoir of Maria Luisa Francesconi, a refugee from Friuli to the U.S. Her travails within Italy by train to escape aerial bombardment of the…

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This six-month period of Il Carroccio in 1932 contains essays by Mussolini in nearly every monthly issue, as well as pro-fascist poetry in several issues by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, the poet laureate of Arkansas, and essays by Edward Corsi, Giuseppe…

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The title of one essay by a non-Italian (P.W. Wilson) - "Two Men Who Stand As Symbols  - Pius XI and Mussolini," stands out.Some poems by one Anna Lannutti in the December issue stand out for the frequent phenomenon we have seen, of the politics of…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the hyperlink for the "main entry" at the end (1915-1932) for its history and place in Italian American…

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This copy inscribed by author to Il Carroccio. Preface by Luigi Roversi.Salvo (b. Italy, 1889; active in New York through 1948), a freelance journalist, came to the U.S. in 1905. Based in New York, he collaborated in Italian language dailies and…

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Inscribed by author "To my kinsman - Anthony Barraco with best wishes for a successful future in his chosen career. Sincerely, Rosario Ingargiola, Dec. 28, 1947." Some of the poetry was composed in standard Italian, and some in dialect.Ingargiola (b.…

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This is the rare "secondo impressione/ secondo migliaio" in books published by Italians. Note that though published by Il Carroccio, the book was printed by Emporium Press, Francesco Tocci's shop. (Soon after this 1916 publication, Il Carroccio…

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Bound in one volume (with Guido Podrecca's Il fascismo, q.v.), not separately paginated. This, the first  (pp. 1- 174) of two works bound together, is that of De Fiori (b. Venezia, 1890; active 1910s-1940s), who knew Mussolini “intimamente” from…

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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…

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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…

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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…
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