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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…

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Stanco is considered one of the most sophisticated of the Italian-language fiction writers, yet it is impossible to find copies of any of his novels, so I'm happy to have one of his more famous novels (taken from the title of Edmondo De Amicis's…

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Stanco’s eloquence and pessimism are amply illustrated in Il diavolo biondo. Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in…

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This is a young Preziosi, a thoughtful observer of Italians in America, a sociological perhaps even more than an historical work. It is almost unrecognizable from the writer's later pro-fascist and anti-Semitic phase during the Fascist era.

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This is a complicated story of love and espionage behind the front line during the Great War, according to Durante.

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De Rosalia was a leader in the Italian American vaudeville scene in New York. He premiered on the New York stage in 1903, shortly after his arrival in America. In 1904, he became a teacher in the New York public schools, and gave English lessons to…

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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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Facsimile copy. I acquired this facsimile copy before I found the original. Kept in the collection as a reading copy, as the original is fairly fragile. See the original copy's description of this work.

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Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in translation.Tipografia del "Bollettino della Sera"; notation of each of 37…

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Rosmunda is the rare example of a screenplay written in the Italian community.Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1887 - d. New York 1921) was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia from…
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