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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 Christ’s exhortation to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” the “political imperative of…
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 the very early days - Rossi arrived in New York in 1880 - of the mass migration.Rossi (b.…
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 war, as is noted early on in this work, had only just been declared by Italy against Turkey on…
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 publishers are listed at the same location (440 Sansome St. in San Francisco) in the 1915 Writings on…
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 Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer,…
Pionieri ed eroi della storia americana [Pioneers and Heroes of American History]. New York: Frugone, Balletto & Pellegatti Printing & Publishing Co., 1907.
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…
Per la libertà! (dalle mie conversazioni col Conte di Rudio, complice de Felice Orsini) [For Liberty! (of my conversations with Count di Rudio, accomplice of Felice Orsini)] [Facsimile]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.
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.
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…
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 writing career in New York, publishing this work with the Società Libraria Italiana, founded and…
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 Dore's work, surely one of the four or five most highly cited sources of historical and sociological…
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 directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, romanzo intimo-contemporaneo passionale, illustrated [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Intimate-Contemporary Passionate Novel][Facsimile]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1912.
A real life story: Vincenzo Paternò del Cugno, a Sicilian baron who was always short on money, killed his lover, the Countess Giulia, in Rome in March 1911, when she refused to give him any more money and broke off their extra-marital relationship.…
L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, contemporaneo romanzo intimo-passionale [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Contemporary Intimate-Passionate Novel]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1944.
See the entry for the 1912 facsimile copy of the original of this work for the full story of Vincenzo Paternò del Cugno, a Sicilian baron who killed his married lover, the Countess Giulia, in Rome in March 1911, when she refused to give him any more…
Il primato degli italiani nella storia e nella civiltà americana: il breviario degli italiani d'America [The Preeminence of Italians in American History and Civilization: a Reference Guide of Italians in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, [1925].
Branchi was an Italian who published his work both in the old country and in the U.S. For a full bio of Branchi, see entry on Così parlò Mister Nature.This copy hold interest for another reason: note the book's owner's name on the title/half-title…
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 Street, San Francisco, Cal.” This information is not on the title page.This is the rare publication…
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 atypical for Italians of his class and that period of time, Prezzolini said they were not a "blend" of…
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 essays arise from a symposium of American studies at Florence in May 1969, very soon after the beginning…
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 unrecognizable from the writer's later pro-fascist and anti-Semitic phase during the Fascist era.
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.
See the full description of this work in the entry for the other copy.This is a library copy of this work, with a softer cover page, and no rear cover; inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bosi to Dottore Guido Egidi, "omaggi d'amicizia, cordiale…
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.
Inscribed by the author, see photo, to Luigi Barzini [Sr.], February, 1922. Alfredo Bosi’s 1921 Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America claims itself to be the first history of Italians in the United States. (There are perhaps other candidates.)…
Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.
Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to assassinate the king, and succeeded. His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a…
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 Coast that is often lacking in East Coast-oriented histories of Italians in the same period and…
America vissuta [American Experiences]. Torino: Fr. Bocca Ed., 1911.
Bernardy was a pioneering journalist in Italy in the early 20th century, and published this work on social life in Italian America. Born in 1880 in Florence, daughter of a Savoyard Italian mother and the American consul to Florence, she wrote for the…
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 remain useful as a measure of the prejudices against Italian Americans by educated Italians of his…