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Dalla Conca d'Oro al "Golden Gate": studii e impressioni di viaggi in America [From the Golden Valley to the "Golden Gate": studies and impressions of travels in America]. New York: Canorma Press, 1928. As noted in the entry for Nicotri's work on the history of revolution and revolt in Sicily, of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October…
Diario di una piccola profuga friulana: episodi dell'invasione del Veneto, 1917 [Diary of a little Friulian refugee: episodes in the invasion of the Veneto, 1917]. New York: Il Carroccio, 1919.This "diario," with both dated and undated entries in November 1917 through the same month in 1918, is a memoir of Maria Luisa Francesconi, a refugee…
America: Primo Amore [America: First Love]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1959.This is the fourth edition of this work, which is an account of the author's two years in America immediately following the stock market crash of…
Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.Francesco Durante refers to Teresi (b. Alia (Palermo), Italy 1875 - d. Rochester, NY 1971) as an Italian-American intellectual. He came to the U.S. in…
Le mie prigioni; adapted for English schools [My Prisons]. London: Librairie Hachette, 1884.This is Silvio Pellico's much reprinted memoirs of his 10 years imprisonment in the Hapsburg's prison in Spielberg for advocating for the freedom of…
Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.Siciliani (b. 1879 Ciro, Calabria - d. Roma 1938) was capo (or head) di Stato Maggiore (the general staff) to General Pietro Badoglio at the time of…
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…
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…
New-York. Milano: Giuseppe Galli, Ed., 1884.New-York reflects a frankness, thoroughness, intensity and texture in Italian about the experiences of Italians in America that is largely lacking in…
America! America!: atti e memorie del popolo [America! America! Acts and Memoirs of the People]. Casalvelino Scalo [Salerno]: Ed. Giuseppe Galzerano, 1979 [1981].Antonio Margariti (b. Ferruzzano, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1891 – d. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1981) published these memoirs in 1979 at age 87. This…
Mémoires de Lorenzo D'Aponte [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte]. Paris: Pagnerre, 1860.This French version of Da Ponte's memoirs, q.v., dated 1860, translated from the Italian by M.C.D. De la Chavanne, still pre-dated by a couple of…
Memorie di Lorenzo da Ponte da Ceneda in tre volumi [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte][Volume 1 only]. New York: Gray & Bunce, Stampatori, 1829.This much more famous work (than Poesie Varie) was also "Pubblicate dall' Autore." Da Ponte’s Memorie could not have been published in Italy at 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…
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)]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.For several years, I had a facsimile copy of this important work. Then to my surprise, the original - impossible to find - became available.Carlo…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other…
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…