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Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti [The Italian American Experience]. New York: Arno Press, 1975.This is the Arno Press (New York Times) reprint of the original work (also in the collection, q.v.).This volume includes Pietro Russo's important and…
L'Emigrazione Italiana in America: osservazioni [Italian Emigration to America: observations]. Piacenza: Tip. del Amico del Popolo, 1887.Observations by the well-known founder of the Scalabrinian order, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), the founder of two other religious orders,…
Gli Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Roma: Tip. di Giovanni Balbi, 1896.This analysis of Italian emigration to the Americas up to the mid-1890s is useful generally about early immigration.After about six pages generally on…
L'America ne' suoi primi fattori: la colonizzazione e l'emigrazione: Nuovi Orizzonti [America in its first factors: colonization and emigration: New Horizons]. Firenze: Tip. di G. Barbera, 1893.This work of activist (in Italy) Giuseppe Godio first presented as part of "new horizons" the idea here that sending Italians to live in less than…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti: L'emigrazione e l'opera degli italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America Atti del III Symposium di Studi Americani Firenze, 27-29 Maggio 1969. Firenze: Istituto di Studi Americani Universita degli studi di Firenze, 1969.This is a fine early collection of essays by both Italian American and Italian scholars about the emigration and work of Italians in the U.S. The…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He…
Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.The front cover provides some bibliographic information in Italian, translated here as: “Printed exclusively for the newspaper L’Italia 1500 Stockton…
La Russia in fiamme [Russia in Flames]. New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian…
Attività Italiane in America [Italian Activities in America]. San Francisco: Mercury Press, 1930.This bilingual work principally by a wealthy, upper-class San Francisco Italian, G. M. Tuoni, provides useful information about Italians on the West…
Storia della Sicilia Antica [History of Old Sicily]. New York: Divagando Corporation, 1955.This work was illustrated by John Abys, who also, as Giovanni Abys, illustrated both the 1912 original and the 1944 reissue of L'Assassinio della…
Memorandum coloniale ossia sintesi storica di osservazioni e fatti che diano un'idea generale della vita coloniale degli italiani nel Nord America con monografia illustrativa della colonia di Philadelphia [Colonial Memorandum, or Historical Synthesis of Observations & facts which give a general idea of the colonial life of Italians in North America with an illustrated monograph of the colony of Philadelphia]. Philadelphia: "La Forbice", 1911.This is stated to be second volume; no copy of this second volume found in any library. The first volume was published by "Mastro Paolo" in 1910-1912,…
Resoconto del processo avanti la Corte d'Assise di Viterbo contro Schicchi Paolo [Report of the Trial before the Court of Assizes in Viterbo against Paolo Schicchi]. New York: Bolletini Speciali del tempo, 1925.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…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b.…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in…
America in pantofole: un impero senza imperialisti| Ragguagli| intorno alla trasformazione degli Stati Uniti| dopo le guerre mondiali [America in Slippers: an empire without imperialists: pieces of information about the transformation of the United States after the world wars]. Firenze: Vallechi Ed., 1950.Director of the Casa Italiana at Columbia during the fascist era, Prezzolini is mostly remembered as a fascist sympathizer. His views nevertheless…
I trapiantati [The Transplanted]. Milano: Longanesi & Co., 1963.Taking in this amalgam of columns he wrote for an Italian newspaper a sometimes sympathetic but often condescending view of Italian Americans, not…
Gl'Italiani negli Stati Uniti del Nord [Italians in the United States of North [America]][Facsimile]. Milano: Libreria Ed. Milanese, 1909.This is a young Preziosi, a thoughtful observer of Italians in America, a sociological perhaps even more than an historical work. It is almost…
Storia delle Missioni Francescane in California con illustrazioni [History of the Franciscan Missions in California, with illustrations]. San Francisco: Tipo. Castagno, Bright & Gold, 1915.This is an illustrated and robust history written by a priest of the 21 Franciscan missions in California founded between 1769 and 1823. The…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia…
La guerra italo-austriaca 1915-1919 [The Italian-Austrian War, 1915-1919]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1919.Pallavicini (b. Torino (according to Flamma) or Milan (according to Schiavo) as Pallavicini-Pirovano, 1886; d. San Francisco, 1938) began his American…
Storia della Sicilia nelle rivoluzioni e rivolte [Story of Sicily in Revolutions and Revolts]. New York: Italian Publishers, 1934.This is an unnumbered signed copy ("ogni copia deve portare la firma dell'autore [every copy should carry the signature of the author]").Of Gaspare…
La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.In this 24-page pamphlet, Lisanti praises fascism, though noting its differences from Christianity. Lisanti declares that fascism has substituted for…
La democrazia e l'emigrazione in America [Democracy and Emigration in America]. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1964.The signature stamp of Leonard Covello, the profoundly influential Italian-American educator in East Harlem, reflects his ownership of this copy of…
Tripoli italiana: La guerra italo-turca: le nostre prime vittorie- descrizioni ed appunti reordinati da Antonio De Martino [Italian Tripoli: the Italo-Turkish War: Our First Victories. Descriptions and notes reordered by Antonio De Martino]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1911.In rooting for Italy’s colonialist ventures (as he would root years later for Mussolini), the publisher Antonio De Martino lost no time: a state of…