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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…

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Essays and verse by some of the regulars of Il Carroccio for years, such as Mussolini and Balbo (essays) and Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni and Rodolfo Pucelli (verse).See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12…

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See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the hyperlink for the "main entry" at the end (1915-1932) for its history and place in Italian American…

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The title of one essay by a non-Italian (P.W. Wilson) - "Two Men Who Stand As Symbols  - Pius XI and Mussolini," stands out.Some poems by one Anna Lannutti in the December issue stand out for the frequent phenomenon we have seen, of the politics of…

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This six-month period of Il Carroccio in 1932 contains essays by Mussolini in nearly every monthly issue, as well as pro-fascist poetry in several issues by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, the poet laureate of Arkansas, and essays by Edward Corsi, Giuseppe…

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This Italian version of the original WPA Guide "The Italians of New York" was "riveduta ed ampliata da Aberto Cupelli" (revised and expanded by Alberto Cupelli); sponsored by Guilds Commmittee for Federal Writers Publications, Inc.The WPA Guides to…

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Please review the lengthy description of this work in this same first edition, second printing (1911-1912) for a detailed description of Pecorini's work. This appears to be one of two identical texts, identical editions, with the same cover,…

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The cover but not the title page of this edition indicates that it is the "nuovissima edizione" - the newest edition - but there is no date inside.The date must be sometime between 1929 and 1933: in the list of Presidents, Herbert Hoover's start date…

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This important work of Pecorini (b. Italy, 1881; d. Argentina, 1957) was first published by the Nicoletti Brothers in 1911 “for the Italians in the United States,” and reprinted in this edition - dated 1912 - by that same important early publishing…

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Eighth Edition. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York, wrote texts designed to help students of English and Italian. This work would appear to be designed…

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"Seventh Edition."It would not be until an Eighth edition in 1933, q.v. - 24 years after the original 1909 publication -  that the reader would be reminded that despite the 1914 date that appears in every edition (the Fifth and Seventh before the…

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Fifth Edition. It seems likely that this Fifth, and the Seventh Edition, q.v., date from sometime in the 1920s, but there is no evidence in the book or otherwise to pin this down.Here, as with Pecorini's Grammatica enciclopedia, I adhere to G. Thomas…

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"New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new edition.) This work is designed for the native English speaker eager to learn Italian.While no date other…

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This is a copy of the Third Edition of this work, 1924, first published, in 1912. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York, wrote texts designed to help…

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Inscribed by the author, see photo, to Luigi Barzini [Sr.], February, 1922. Alfredo Bosi’s 1921 Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America claims itself to be the first history of Italians in the United States. (There are perhaps other candidates.)…

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See the full description of this work in the entry for the other copy.This is a library copy of this work, with a softer cover page, and no rear cover; inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bosi to Dottore Guido Egidi, "omaggi d'amicizia, cordiale…

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Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of the Comintern and later became a political party leader in Italy.This poetry collection includes…

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Unlike Tears, this collection of Balabanoff's poetry contains only poetry in Italian. It is dedicated "To the victims of Fascism, to the Martyrs for Liberty," named in the prefatory remarks by "gli incaricati" (those in charge). The referenced…

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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…

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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…
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