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Autograph letter, signed of Vincenzo Polidori, one of the founders and owners of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, December 3, 1885 to William Shipman, Esq., attorney for the landlord of the building in which Il Progresso was housed.The letter notes the inclusion, in the envelope, of a rent payment to the landlord (through his attorney). Polidori and Il Progresso's co-owner Carlo…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b.…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in…
New-York. Milano: Giuseppe Galli, Ed., 1884.New-York reflects a frankness, thoroughness, intensity and texture in Italian about the experiences of Italians in America that is largely lacking in…
La battaglia dell'Italia negli Stati Uniti - 1925-1926: articoli e note polemiche; con ritratto e autografo di Benito Mussolini [The Battle of Italy in the United States - 1925-1926: essays and polemical notes; with a portrait and autograph of Benito Mussolini]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1927.This work consists of polemical articles (against syndicalists and other enemies of fascism) from the prior two years of Il Carroccio as publisher,…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella & Co., 1921.Ludovico (really Michele, but he took the name of his deceased brother after the latter's death) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had…