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Auto-difesa: pronunciata davanti al Tibunale di Mantova il 27 Ottobre 1909 [Self-Defense: pronounced before the Tribunal of Mantova, Oct. 27, 1909]. Bologna: Casa ed. "La Controcorrente", 1909.
Title page stamped "Liberia Editrice Elvira Catello, 1946 First Avenue, New York City," on this work published in Bologna. Bolognese herself, Maria Ryger (1885-1953) wrote often on syndicalist topics; another of her works was Il sindacalismo alla…
Lavoro e surmenage [Work and Burnout]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, [191-].
Translated from French (Travail et surmenage); part of Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria, part of Galleani's group of Italian anarchists in Vermont. Sacco and Vanzetti belonged to this group.Pierrot (1871-1950) published this work in French as…
Tutto il dolore, tutto l'amore [All of the Pain, All of the Love: A novel in an Italian American Environment]. San Francisco: L'Italia Press Company, Ed., 1926.
The title page states, “Pubblicato nelle appendici del Giornale ‘L’Italia’ di San Francisco,” [Published as appendices of the San Francisco newspaper, L’Italia]. Like many of the works of both fiction and non-fiction (e.g., Carnovale, Il giornalismo)…
Errico Malatesta. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1922].
Nettlau (b. Neuwaldegg [Vienna], 1865; d. Amsterdam, 1944) was a German anarchist - indeed, according to Paul Avrich, Nettlau was the foremost historian of anarchism - who met Malatesta in London, and remained friends for the rest of their lives.…
La responsabilità e la solidarietà nella lotta operaia: rapporto letto alla "Freedom Discussion Group" il 5 dicembre 1899 [Responsibility and Solidarity in the Workers' Struggle: report read to the "Freedom Discussion Group," December 5, 1899]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, 1913.
Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria. A short report written by German anarchist Max Nettlau. It was published by the book arm of L’Azione, a critical weekly of revolutionary propaganda based in Barre, VT, where Luigi Galleani settled after postal…
La crisi del socialismo [The Crisis of Socialism]. Chicago: Ed. a cura de "Il Proletario", 1922.
A text by anarcho-syndicalist Enrico Meledandri, with sections titled, translated here, “The Fate of Socialism,” “Inert Maximalism,” “Scientific Socialism,” and “Misery and Revolution.” Note that the same printer’s mark of the I.W.W. appears on the…
Il capitale: semplificato e volgarizzato ad uso degli operai [Capital: Simplified and Popularized for the Use of Workers]. Chicago: La Parola Printing & Publishing House, 1911.
This abridged and simplified version of Marx's foundational text of communism is preceded by a short explanation of Marx's life and works prepared by Giuseppe Bertelli, editor of La Parola dei Socialisti. This is volume 22 of the "Biblioteca de La…
Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti [Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti]. New York: Il Martello Publishing Co., 1928.
The original, published in English in 1927, by International Publishers, is also in the Collection. This, the most dramatic, galvanizing (including after their execution) and dispiriting historical event of the era involving Italian anarchists led to…
Io canto la vita e la morte! [I Sing of Life and Death!]. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Inc., 1923.
Inscribed by author "To my kinsman - Anthony Barraco with best wishes for a successful future in his chosen career. Sincerely, Rosario Ingargiola, Dec. 28, 1947." Some of the poetry was composed in standard Italian, and some in dialect.Ingargiola (b.…
Manet Immota Fides: Omaggio all memoria imperitura di Carlo Tresca [Our Faith Remains Unshaken: In Tribute to the Everlasting Memory of Carlo Tresca]. New York: Il Martello (Gruppo Carlo Tresca), 1943.
Created in the wake of his assassination in Union Square, this work includes essays honoring Tresca by James T. Farrell, John Dos Passos, Roger Baldwin, Max Eastman, Norman Thomas; and poems by Ted Robinson and Arturo Giovannitti. The work includes a…
Figure e figuri. Medaglioni [Characters and suspicious types. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1930.
The articles collected here were originally published in La Questione or Cronaca Sovversiva between 1901 and 1920. This is a collection of Galleani’s articles on various important movement characters, Italian and otherwise, published by the…
La fine dell' anarchismo? [The End of Anarchism?] New York: Ed. curata da vecchi lettori di Cronica Sovversiva, 1925.
This is in part the transcript of an interview between socialist and anarchist writer and attorney for the anarchists, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and Cesare Sobrero of the Italian daily, La Stampa, and in part, following the interview, Galleani’s…
Aneliti e singulti. Medaglioni [Yearnings and Sobs. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1935.
This work was published in Newark by the Adunata dei Refrattari, the successor to the Cronaca Sovversiva led by Raffaele Schiavina (Max Sartin) after his sub rosa return to America some time after his deportation in 1919. However, this work was…
Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la rivoluzione sociale [Against War, Against Peace, for the Social Revolution]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [c. 1930]
This work contains two essays of Galleani's, Per la guerra, per la neutralita o per la pace? (pp. 5-60) and Contro la guerra, contro la pace, per la rivoluzione! (lacking the word "sociale" at the end)(pp. 61-74), the first appearing to be the same…
Viva l'anarchia! [Hooray for Anarchy!] Newark: Cronaca Sovversiva, [1931].
Three-panel folded keepsake from the Cronaca Sovversiva, on heavy stock, enunciating the principles of how long anarchism will have to exist - so long as all the injustices of the world remain. Luigi Galleani was one of the anarchist movement’s most…
Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.
A pamphlet of 24 pages, this work addresses Italian mothers about the injustices of a nation whose sons return from war, mutilated and undone. In particular it calls for the release of Augusto Masetti, a soldier who, during the Libyan war, is alleged…
Una battaglia [A Struggle]. Roma: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
The first 65 pages of this work reprint and expand upon an earlier Galleani work, also in the Collection, Contro la guerra – contro la pace – per la rivoluzione sociale. In addition to the original essay, the work includes over fifty articles written…
Le variazioni [Changes]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1916.
This is the rare "secondo impressione/ secondo migliaio" in books published by Italians. Note that though published by Il Carroccio, the book was printed by Emporium Press, Francesco Tocci's shop. (Soon after this 1916 publication, Il Carroccio…
L'impostura religiosa: la chiesa: Prima traduzione dal francese [Religious Deception: the Church: first translation from the French]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.
With a preface by Giuseppe Altieri, who is perhaps also the translator from French, although nothing in Altieri's preface suggests as much. There is no other information about the translator in the book.Sébastien Faure was a French anarchist,…
Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].
The verso of the cover of this pamphlet states “(Tradotto dal supplemento de La Protesta di Buenos Aires)” (translated from the supplement of La Protesta of Buenos Aires). La Protesta is an Argentine anarchist newspaper still in publication. The…
A proposito d'un regicidio?; Biblioteca "Questione Sociale" Nono Opuscolo [What About a Regicide? Library of "La Questione Sociale," Ninth Pamphlet]. Paterson: Tipo. De "El Despertar," 1900.
This work is of course about Gaetano Bresci, the Italian American silkworker in Paterson who travelled to Italy to assassinate Italian King Umberto, and succeeded in doing so on July 29, 1900. Published in the Biblioteca of the famous Paterson…
Almanacco illustrato dell'Elvezia: dono agli abbonati del 1895 [Illustrated Almanac of the "Elvezia", a gift for its subscribers in 1895]. San Francisco: L'Elvezia, [1894].
One of the earlier of the almanacs (of about 6 or 7) in the Collection. This 1895 Italo-Svizzero Americano almanac was published in San Francisco, Pietro Magetti handwritten owner name on cover. This is the "Supplemento all'Elvezia no. 7" that…
La battaglia dell'Italia negli Stati Uniti - 1925-1926: articoli e note polemiche; con ritratto e autografo di Benito Mussolini [The Battle of Italy in the United States - 1925-1926: essays and polemical notes; with a portrait and autograph of Benito Mussolini]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1927.
This work consists of polemical articles (against syndicalists and other enemies of fascism) from the prior two years of Il Carroccio as publisher, not simply as printer (as in the case of De Fiori's Mussolini). De Biasi (b. Sant-Angelo dei Lombardi…
Del delitto e delle pene nella società di domani [Of Crime and Punishment in the Society of Tomorrow]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [1930].
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.
Carlo Marx e Bacunin in Spagna [Karl Marx and Bakunin in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.
Mikhail Bakunin (or "Bacunin" in Italian) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism, a contemporary of Marx who split from Marx after the first International. Bakunin was thus a hero to the early Italian anarchists, including Malatesta, Galleani,…