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Sull'Oceano [On the Ocean]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1897. De Amicis (b. 1846 Oneglia (Liguria) - d. 1908 Bordighera, Italy) was a novelist, journalist, travel-writer, poet and short-story writer. In 1896,…
America: Primo Amore [America: First Love]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1959.This is the fourth edition of this work, which is an account of the author's two years in America immediately following the stock market crash of…
La fabbrica parla [The Factory Speaks]. Milano: Milano-Sera Ed., 1950.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
Ho rinunciato alla libertà [I've Given Up Liberty]. Milano: Le edizioni sociali, 1950.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
Accordi e dissonanze [Harmonies and Dissonances]. Milano: Editrice Convivio Letterario, 1958.Several of the poems from this Italian original collection are translated in Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian…
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.…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with…
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…
I trapiantati [The Transplanted]. Milano: Longanesi & Co., 1963.Taking in this amalgam of columns he wrote for an Italian newspaper a sometimes sympathetic but often condescending view of Italian Americans, not…
Gl'Italiani negli Stati Uniti del Nord [Italians in the United States of North [America]][Facsimile]. Milano: Libreria Ed. Milanese, 1909.This is a young Preziosi, a thoughtful observer of Italians in America, a sociological perhaps even more than an historical work. It is almost…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia…
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 carezza divina: romanzo [The Divine Caress: a Novel]. Milano: Casa ed. Sonzogno (Alberto Matarelli), 1939-XVII.The special interest of this work is that it provides an autobiographical glimpse of Pallavicini, hidden behind the character Giorgio Albani. It…
Per le vie del mondo [Along the Highways of the World]. Milano: C.E.Sonzogno (Matarelli), 1933.This work also appeared as a serial in the Corriere d'America in 1922-23 published under the title Il romanzo d’un emigrate [The Novel of an…
Tutto il dolore, tutto l'amore [All of the Pain, All of the Love: A novel in an Italian American Environment]. San Francisco: L'Italia Press Company, Ed., 1926.The title page states, “Pubblicato nelle appendici del Giornale ‘L’Italia’ di San Francisco,” [Published as appendices of the San Francisco newspaper,…
Mastro Bertuchello e il tesoro dei ventimiglia [Master Bertuchello and the Treasure of the 20,000]. Milano: Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano, 1950.This is an Italian Book Company import: underneath the name of the Casa ed. "La Madonnina," the Milanese publisher on the cover, is the notice that…
Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th)…
Efrem Bartoletti: Riflessioni poetiche [Efrem Bartoletti: Poetic Reflections]. Milano: Gastaldi Ed., 1955.Issued in the series of ""Poeti d'oggi"" (Poets of Today). This copy of Bartoletti’s collection of poems is inscribed in the year of publication "in…
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and…
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a…
Core'ngrato: canzone napoletana [Ungrateful Heart: Neapolitan Song]. Milano: Ed. Ricordi, 1947.Note "versi di R. Cordiferro" in interior; "trascrizione per fisarmonica di Luigi Oreste Anzaghi [transciption for accordion by Luigi Oreste Anzaghi]"…