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La scintilla: canti popolari [The Spark: Popular Songs]. Palermo: Stab. Tip. Pietro Nocera, 1883.
It is a guess, but perhaps a good one, that the Palermitan who published this 1883 work in that Sicilian city - with the unconventional (for Italians) last-name-first-name - is the same author who would, as late as more than four decades later, in…
I tre cavalieri di Trinacria [The Three Sicilian Horsemen]. New York: [n.p.] [G.P. Printing], 1929.
This cloak-and-dagger “historical novel” set in mid-19th century Sicily, is prefaced with a poem that praises fascism and wishes Mussolini a long life, follows Pellegrino’s first novel, I misteri di New York, q.v., by some 26 years. Francesco Durante…
I misteri di New York: romanzo storico sociale| di Menotti Pellegrino |con annesso| Il Grande Manuale Internazionale| degli| Annunzi [The Mysteries of New York: historical social novel of Menotti Pellegrino, and annexed, the Great International Manuale of Advertisements][Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ital. U Di Luca & Benedetti, 1903.
I misteri di New York, a novel that speaks of crime, corruption and political entanglements within and outside the Italian community, is an “almost indecipherable hodgepodge,” according to Martino Marazzi. Yet Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a…