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…
This copy, with an inscription to “the most noble Madam Contessa Valdrighi” dated June 7, 1899, is a hagiography of the Torinese count, Palma di Cesnola, who arrived in America penniless (but of noble birth). Though impoverished, he learned English…
This later edition, the most commonly available one (dated 1965), lacks the biographical entry at the outset, the ads at the end, and most of the Italian-language material. However, it does contain Caruso’s letters in the Italian original,…
This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso (b. Naples, 1873; d. Naples, 1921). La Follia di New York published Caruso’s caricatures in individual…
Ludovico (really Michele) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had one of the lengthiest, most varied and colorful lives of all the Italian anarchists in America, starting or writing a number of newspapers (with politics ranging from left…