This work, with a cover illustration by W. Vercellino, is a series of philosophical essays, apparently all written by Pietro Novasio, about the “art of life,” with barely a page gone by before the writer invokes Schopenhauer, Emerson, Vico,…
Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th) collection of Gori's poems; it includes poems written in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,…
Born in Palermo, Pietro Varvaro (active 1910-1950s) lived in New York in relative obscurity for the latter part of his life, visited often by Italian friends from what remained of the Sicilian nobility, such as the Prince of Niscemi. He was also…
Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944 pamphlet, Cacchione was supportive of Antonini: see DRESSMAKERS ITALIANI, volete che la nostra Locale…
Ribet dedicates the work to her son Joseph, who appears to have been killed in World War II. Her goal is to help those who, in encouraging or allowing their children to become nuns (or priests), pretend that their children are following a "vocation"…
Published for National Election Campaign Committee Communist Party of the United States.Cacchione was the first member of the New York City Council who was openly a member of the Communist Party USA.
This work has inconsistent bibliographic information: the date of 1909 is that of the publication of this work by the Libreria Rossa of Elivira Catello, q.v., who most libraries state as the publisher (U. Minn, U. Michigan, IISH (Amsterdam)). But…
Valera (b. Como 1850 - d. Milano 1926) was a prolific journalist and novelist - referred to as the "Zola of Italy" - who led an even more colorful life than his confreres among anti-fascists. He spent three years in prison in the late 1880s for his…
This work is a report of Paolo Schicchi's trial for attempted murder and other crimes allegedly committed by this anarchist. It includes a statement by the Sicilian-born but international revolutionary anarchist himself, as well as transcripts of…
Ruotolo, a close friend of Arturo Giovannitti, spent his infancy in Campagna, according to Francesco Durante, and went to Naples to study sculpting with Vincenzo Gemito. In 1908, he moved to New York, to sculpt. He was a teacher at and co-founder of…
Inscribed in 1951 on the verso of the title page by Ruotolo "al caro amico Hugo Rolland...[to {my} dear friend Hugo Rolland . . . " This is copy no. 110 of this "edizione limitata di 500 copie numerate [edition limitated to 500 numbered…
Introduction by Paolo Bagnoli; this copy has a label stuck on back cover: S.F. Vanni-Publishers & Booksellers, 30 W 12 St., NYC. Author Ragusa was professor of Italian at Columbia University for most of her career, linked to the Casa Italiana at…
This is the rare "secondo impressione/ secondo migliaio" in books published by Italians. Note that though published by Il Carroccio, the book was printed by Emporium Press, Francesco Tocci's shop. (Soon after this 1916 publication, Il Carroccio…
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, 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…
Nettlau (b. Neuwaldegg [Vienna], 1865; d. Amsterdam, 1944) was a German anarchist - indeed, according to Paul Avrich, Nettlau was the foremost historian of anarchism - who met Malatesta in London, and remained friends for the rest of their lives.…
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…
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…
This is the rare Italian Book Company book in English (Mussolini's biography of Jan Hus is the other in the Collection). This cook book - typical in some ways of IBC publications, mostly imported, about home and hearth - is much sought after,…
This is in part the transcript of an interview between socialist and anarchist writer and attorney for the anarchists, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and Cesare Sobrero of the Italian daily, La Stampa, and in part, following the interview, Galleani’s…
The verso of the cover of this pamphlet states “(Tradotto dal supplemento de La Protesta di Buenos Aires)” (translated from the supplement of La Protesta of Buenos Aires). La Protesta is an Argentine anarchist newspaper still in publication. The…
Dedicated to Melville Knox Bailey, founder & president of "Italo-American Educational League." Perhaps reflecting how early in the period of the Great Migration he was writing, Cavallaro’s work is not about Italians, but rather sets forth the…