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Inscribed by author, former Italian ambassador to Washington, this is a lecture that he was invited to give in late 1903 at several Chambers of Commerce of the Kingdom to demonstrate the advantage that Italian arts and industries would receive by…

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This is a lengthy essay by Riccardo Cordiferro on perhaps the then most celebrated political, journalistic and literary figure of Italy, who was also known for the torrid love affair he carried on with actress Eleonora Duse. D’Annunzio had a…

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Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part with permission of New San Francisco Magazine.See discussion of this work in the essay by Francesco…

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Born in Modena in 1877, Forzato-Spezia emigrated with her husband to the U.S. in 1891, and settled in West Hoboken, NJ. She opened a bookstore there renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she…

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For a brief bio of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime considered Damiani, always on the move although never in the U.S., as the leader of Italian anarchism.

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Facing page translation by C. G. Moroni, Professor of Italian, of this essay, which is dated 1861.This U.S. Civil War era work argues against secession of the Southern States from the Union. The translator's address to the author explains that…
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