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Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].
See a complete description of this work in the entry for the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in American history in the last section of the work is dated then in the present: translated, it reads,…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata Italiana-Inglese e guida pratica dell'italiano in America. Corso Complete per imparare a scrivere, parlare e comprendere la lingua inglese in breve tempo senza maestro [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Practical Guide for the Italian in America. Complete course for learning to write, speak and understand the English language in a short time, without a teacher]. New York: A. Gaudenzi & Co., 1914.
This work in the 1914 "latest edition" (as indicated on the cover but not on the title page) was originally issued in 1896, when it was copyrighted by Angelo De Gaudenzi & Co., and renewed in 1900, see verso of title page, just a few years after…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].
See a complete description of this work in that of the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in American history in the last section of the work is dated then in the present: translated, it reads, "The…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti.[Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia, with pronunciation. Divided in 11 parts]. New York: Libreria De Martino, Inc./Italian Book Company, [1963].
The original (1896) edition was self-published by the author; appears later to have sold the copyright to the IBC, and became a corporate officer of that publisher. De Gaudenzi's grammar was among the very first grammars composed in the Italian…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti [The Italian American Experience]. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
This is the Arno Press (New York Times) reprint of the original work (also in the collection, q.v.).This volume includes Pietro Russo's important and oft-cited "La stampa periodica italo-americana," a basic work for understanding the Italian-American…
Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly], Anno 2, No. 2. New York: E.M. Grella, 12 Gennaio [January] 1930.
See the general entry for this magazine for some history. This satirical magazine is not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Giovannitti and Venanzi that was issued in 1915.The calendar depicted on the second interior page above is…
Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly], Anno 1, No. 7. New York: E.M. Grella, 1 Decembre [December] 1929.
See general entry for this magazine for some history. Not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Giovannitti and Venanzi in 1915.
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 5 [Facsimile]. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., 1919.
See general entry for Il Carroccio for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 2, No. 48. New York: Asino Publishing Co., 28 November 1909.
This 1909 issue is the only issue of L'Asino in the collection that was actually published in (as opposed to being distributed in) New York. To see the difference between the two: note "New York" and the date of publication in small type above the…
La secessione della "Sons of Italy Grand Lodge": Studi polemici sui diversi problemi degl'italiani in America; con prefazione del Dr. Ornello Simone [The Secession of the "Sons of Italy Lodge": Polemical Studies on Various Problems of Italians in America, with a preface by Dr. Ornello Simone]. New York: Colamco Press, 1926.
This one-of-a-kind 1926 volume tells of the internal struggles of the Sons of Italy during the fascist era about whether to support the fascist regime in Italy. Benanti seems to have been pro-fascist, but see discussion below of his later…
Gabriele D'Annunzio: nella vita e nell'arte [Gabriele D'Annunzio: in Life and in Art]. New York: Cocce Bros., 1938.
This is a lengthy essay by Riccardo Cordiferro on perhaps the then most celebrated political, journalistic and literary figure of Italy, who was also known for the torrid love affair he carried on with actress Eleonora Duse. D’Annunzio had a…
Raccolta di brindisi per ogni occasione in dialetto siciliano [Collection of toasts for every occasion in Sicilian dialect] [Facsimile]. New York: Societa Libraria Italiana - Italian Book Company, [1916].
With a publication date of 1916, this work appears to have preceded the enormously popular 1917 Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii of Molinari and Cordiferro, q.v., which was a lengthy work (320 pages) containing speeches…
Lu ciucciu. Poema in dialetto calabrese [The Donkey: poem in Calabrese dialect]. New York: Tipografia Sisca & Sons, 1913.
The only known book-length publication of Alessandro and Marziale Sisca's father, Francesco Sisca, or of the publisher or printer that bore their family name, this poem was a “bilingual” collaboration — Calabrian dialect by the father, and Italian…
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 1929, when he taught at Columbia University. It was first published in 1935 by Bemporad (Florence), and…
Scissione e nuovo schieramento nel campo sindacale mondiale [Split and new alliance in the world-wide syndicalist camp]. New York: American Federation of Labor, International Labor Relations Committee, 1949.
This 16-page pamphlet is a republication of a magazine article, that is, "Ripubblicato, in seguito a speciale autorizzazione, dal numero di gennaio 1949 de FOREIGN AFFAIRS, rivista americana trimestrale, 58 East 68th Street, New York [Republished,…
Militarismo e miseria: dramma in 3 atti [Militarism and Misery: drama in three acts]. Brooklyn: Tip. Guerriero, 1916.
The action of this anti-war play unfolds in a little town in northern Italy during the "giornate rosse [Red Days]" of June 1914. The play was presented for the first time at the Filodrammatica Sovversiva di New York [Subversive Amateur Dramatic…
Perché la guerra in Africa [Why the War in Africa?]. New York: Casa ed. "Unità"/ Società ed. "L'Unità", [1935?]
We can estimate the date of this work because the introduction begins from the vantage point of "21 years after the beginning of the last world war," which was 1914; thus, it is 1935.Among the advertisements on the recto of the last leaf is that of…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. New York: Edizioni Libertarie, 1927.
Armando Borghi’s unflattering biography of Mussolini, Mussolini in camicia, was too dangerous (to author, publisher or printer) to be released in Italy: soon after Mussolini’s rise to power in 1922, publishing a work criticizing him or the Fascist…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
La leggenda del Piave [The Legend of the Piave]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1918.
Note the copyright by the Italian Book Company both on the cover and at the bottom of the first page of this sheet music: "Copyright 1918 by the Italian Book Co. 145-147 Mulberry Street - New-York| This copy can be imported in the United States only…
Sprazzi di luce: pennelate di propaganda anticlericale. New York: [n.p.], 1940.
While the publisher is not listed, as such, the recto of the final leaf displays an advertisement for Il Proletario, published by the Federazione Socialista Italiana in New York. So it is possible, i fnot likely, that the federation also published…
Spose di guerra: dramma in un atto [War Brides: drama in one act]. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1915].
This feminist, anti-war play is the best known work of socialist and suffragette Wentworth (b. 1872 - d. 1942); it's a topic that would have appealed to Carlo Tresca, proprietor of Il Martello and its book publishing arm. Tresca also used the…
Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.
The front cover provides some bibliographic information in Italian, translated here as: “Printed exclusively for the newspaper L’Italia 1500 Stockton Street, San Francisco, Cal.” This information is not on the title page.This is the rare publication…
Dio e patria: nel pensiero dei rinnegati. New York: [n.p.], [c. 1924-1925].
This work reproduces, first, the record of a debate on March 25, 1904 (and Mussolini’s preface thereto, dated July 1904), in Lausanne (Lossana), Switzerland between the then virulently anti-clerical young socialist Mussolini, already known for his…
Secondo libro del manuale per imparare la lingua inglese senza maestro. Contenente storiette amene ed il segretario spedito [Second Manual for Learning the English Language without a Teacher. Containing pleasant stories and a quick secretary] [Facsimile]. New York: [n.p.], 1886.
This second grammar by Bassetti followed hard on what he described in ads as the success of the first one. Designed especially for immigrant Italians, it contained worksheets and both correct spelling and phonetic spelling of English words to help…