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Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella/Soc. Tipografica Italiana, 1921.
Ludovico (really Michele) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had one of the lengthiest, most varied and colorful lives of all the Italian anarchists in America, starting or writing a number of newspapers (with politics ranging from left…
Verso il comunismo [Towards Communism]. Barre, VT: Tip. della Cronica Sovversiva, 1904.
This short (13-page) pamphlet was published in Barre, VT by the Cronaca Sovversiva only about a year after that newspaper's founding in 1903 on the types of political views of different people the narrator met while a student at the University of…
Una battaglia [A Struggle]. Roma: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
The first 65 pages of this work reprint and expand upon an earlier Galleani work, also in the Collection, Contro la guerra – contro la pace – per la rivoluzione sociale. In addition to the original essay, the work includes over fifty articles written…
Tolstoismo e anarchismo: rapporto presentato al Congresso Operaio Rivoluzionario Internazionale di Parigi dal Gruppo degli Studenti Socialisti Rivoluzionarii Internazionalisti di Parigi [Tolstoyism and anarchism: Report presented to the Revolutionary Working-Class International Congress of Paris of the Socialist Students Revolutionary International Group of Paris]. Barre: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1900?]
The anarchists of Barre were a colorful group. Frequently on the run from the postal or other federal authorities for his publishing and anarchist activities, and looking for a new base of operations after a short time in Paterson, Luigi Galleani and…
Se dovessi parlare agli elettori: ecco quanto direi loro [If I Had to Speak with the Electorate, Here is What I Would Tell Them]. East Boston: Gruppo Autonomo, [191-?]
Translation of work of French anarchist anti-electoral essay. Gruppo Autonomo was Galleani's violent anarchist cell that included Sacco & Vanzetti.French journalist, editor, theorist, novelist, educator, and campaigner, Jean Grave was one of the…
San Francisco e la sua catastrofe [San Francisco and its Catastrophe]. Tipografia Internazionale, 1906.
After the Italians of New York, those of San Francisco (and Chicago) probably had the most well-developed network of periodical press, book press, theatre, literature of various types, associations and other forms of collective efforts, including…
Saggio su di una concezione filosofica dell'anarchismo [Essay on a Philosophical Conception of Anarchism]. Pistoia: Fondazione-Archivio, famiglia Berneri, 1991.
Damiani's popularity remains strong, as this relatively recent (1991) publication suggests.
Rivoluzione e controrivoluzione [Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Manifesto of the militants and the Reunited Anarchist Groups of North America]. Brooklyn: Comitato dei Gruppi Riuniti Galilei Club, 1944.
The Galilei Club was another chosen name for an anarchist group, reflecting the independence of its namesake (whose last name the group used, rather than the more familiar first name, Galileo), as well as his battles with the religious authorities.…
Richiamo all'anarchia: protesta e proposta anarchica in otto conferenze pronunciate in terra d'esilio durante la dominazione fascista [Call to Anarchy: Anarchic Protest and Proposal in 8 Lectures Given in a Land of Exile during the Fascist Domination]. Cesena: Edizioni l'antistato Cesena, 1965.
Virgilia D’Andrea (b. Sulmona, 1890; d. New York, 1933) did not live to see this work, published three decades after her death; she died suddenly at the young age of 43. D’Andrea immigrated to the U.S. with her lover, Armando Borghi in 1926 or 1927.…
Mussolini Red and Black. New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938.
For a full description of this work and its significance, see the description of it in the entry for the 1927 edition (published in New York) of Mussolini in camicia, q.v. It took 11 years for Borghi's work to return in translation to New York, where…
Mussolini Red and Black. London: Wishart Books Limited, 1935.
Note that his translation by Dorothy Daudley is from the 1932 French edition (Mussolini en chemise, q.v.), rather than the Italian original of 1927 in New York. This edition also includes an Epilogue (fancifully entitled "Hitler: Mussolini's…
Mezzo secolo di anarchia (1898-1945) [A Half Century of Anarchy (1898-1945)]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1954.
This memoir describes Borghi's arrival in the world of anarchism, so new to him, in very dramatic terms. He was amazed by America: "For a long time, I did not understand it. I was attracted by it and at the same time repelled by it." The preface is…
Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.
A pamphlet of 24 pages, this work addresses Italian mothers about the injustices of a nation whose sons return from war, mutilated and undone. In particular it calls for the release of Augusto Masetti, a soldier who, during the Libyan war, is alleged…
Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].
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…
Lavoro e surmenage [Work and Burnout]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, [191-].
Translated from French (Travail et surmenage); part of Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria, part of Galleani's group of Italian anarchists in Vermont. Sacco and Vanzetti belonged to this group.Pierrot (1871-1950) published this work in French as…
La responsabilità e la solidarietà nella lotta operaia: rapporto letto alla "Freedom Discussion Group" il 5 dicembre 1899 [Responsibility and Solidarity in the Workers' Struggle: report read to the "Freedom Discussion Group," December 5, 1899]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, 1913.
Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria. A short report written by German anarchist Max Nettlau. It was published by the book arm of L’Azione, a critical weekly of revolutionary propaganda based in Barre, VT, where Luigi Galleani settled after postal…
La guerra che viene [The War that is Coming]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.
Deported to Italy from the U.S. with Galleani, Max Sartin, whose real name was Rafaelle Schiavina (b. San Carlo (Ferrara), Italy, April 8, 1894 – d. New York, 1987) returned illegaly to the U.S. in 1928, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari until its…
La bottega: scene della ricostruzione fascista [The Workshop: scene of the fascist reconstruction]. Detroit: Libreria Autonoma, 1927.
A two-act, heavily anti-fascist play published by the Detroit anarchist group’s bookstore, the Libreria Autonoma (Autonomous Bookstore). (See also Lolmo, Insurrezione e Rivoluzione, published by same publisher., part of the collecton.) Gigi Damiani…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten]. Roma and New York, 8 Gennaio [January] 1905 - 28 Novembre [November] 1909.
The collection includes:Italian imprint:L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 2 - 8 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 3 - 15 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 6 - 5 Febbraio [February] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 7 - 12 Febbraio [February] 1905…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 8. Roma, 19 Febbraio [February] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 2. Roma: L'Asino, 8 Gennaio [January] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 11. Roma, 12 Marzo [March] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 3. Roma, 15 Gennaio [January] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: [like] the people [is] useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 18. Roma, 30 Aprile [April] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
Il vate etneo: conferenza tenuta a New York, in commemorazione di MARIO RAPISARDI, nell'Aula Magna del Normal College di Park Ave. sotto gli auspici del Circolo Italiano fra studentesse del medesimo Istituto [The Etnean Poet: lecture given in New York, in commemoration of MARIO RAPISARDI, in the Great Hall of the Normal College of Park Avenue under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano of the female students of that same Institute.] New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1914.
Preface by Matteo Teresi, on whom, see, in the collection, Con la patria nel cuore. La mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart. My propaganda among the immigrants] (Palermo: D’Antoni, 1925), and discussion there of Teresi's…