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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…

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Bound in one volume (with Guido Podrecca's Il fascismo, q.v.), not separately paginated. This, the first  (pp. 1- 174) of two works bound together, is that of De Fiori (b. Venezia, 1890; active 1910s-1940s), who knew Mussolini “intimamente” from…

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Published in the same year as the autobiography of Casanova, q.v., the advertisement for this work (on the back cover of the Casanova) noted not only "i suoi trionfi, i suoi amori" (his triumphs and his love affairs) but also "la sua tragica fine"…

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The fascination of many with the “avventure amorose” of one of the great pleasure seekers and serial seducers (of the wives and daughters of important subjects of French King Louis XV) in European history apparently continued into the 1940s America…

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In 1896, Pasquale Ardito published in Italy Le avventure di Nicola Morra, ex bandito pugliese. There is no indication (at least in this facsimile) that De Martino, who takes credit here for having "reordered" or "rearranged" as well as "enlarged" the…

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Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) first emigrated to the United States in 1909. During the First World War, he was a volunteer with the American army. He lived in Chicago, where he worked as secretary of the Italian Chamber of…

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While this work calls itself "Volume III," it's really more a reprint of the original work from 13 years before but supplemented by additional names. Clearly, the original was successful enough that Flamma (or Cocce Press) thought it worthwhile to…

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Published only a year after La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City, this work by Flamma is, for the first half, a dyspeptic (or dystopic) meditation on the vagaries of wealth, prosperity and our national illusion during the Depression. Only…

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This is the most recently dated imprint (1951) of the Italian Book Company in the collection. Giuliano (b. 1922, killed 1950) was the 20th c. Sicilian "gentleman bandit" who was the subject of Mario Puzo's The Sicilian. On the outside and inside rear…

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A good example of an import by the Italian Book Company; the only OCLC copies are in Italian libraries. Book ads appear on the verso of the title page for the U.S.-produced Molinari/Cordiferro Raccolta di discorsi published by the Italian Book…

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La prima santa d’America reflects the intense pride in Mother Cabrini that continued to exist nearly thirty years after her death. Although she was not canonized a saint until 1946, the title of this work predicts it with certainty, which is not…

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The original, published in English in 1927, by International Publishers, is also in the Collection. This, the most dramatic, galvanizing (including after their execution) and dispiriting historical event of the era involving Italian anarchists led to…

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The book opens with an adulatory preface by "Italian Book Co.," probably De Martino himself. This is one of the relatively few works published by the Italian Book Company in English, presumably to reach a wider audience of Italian American readers…

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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.…

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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…

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This copy, with an inscription to “the most noble Madam Contessa Valdrighi” dated June 7, 1899, is a hagiography of the Torinese count, Palma di Cesnola, who arrived in America penniless (but of noble birth). Though impoverished, he learned English…

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Vacirca’s anti-fascist biography of Mussolini covers the period from his growing up in poverty to his rise to “Il Duce” in 1925 and emperor in 1936. The bright pictorial cover (artist unknown) is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a red-eyed…

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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…

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At 352 pages, this edition of Nettlau's biography of Malatesta - published in the same year (1922) and by the same publisher (Il Martello) -  is 48 pages longer than the other edition. See the other edition for a brief bio of Nettlau, who was…

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See the lengthy history of this work in the description of the 1927 Edizione Libertarie edition published in Italian in New York in order to understand where this edition fits into that history.Borghi's work continued its popularity in Italy, some 16…
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