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Un appello agli Italiani [An Appeal to Italians]. [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, [1942.]
Text is only in Italian, unlike the "Per un governo" which is otherwise a similar pamphlet issued by the Italian Communist Party, whose newspaper was L'Unità del Popolo.
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…
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…
Berneri in Ispagna [Berneri in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1937.
Deported to Italy from the U.S. in 1919 with his leader, Luigi Galleani, author Schiavina returned illegally to the U.S. in 1928 using the name Max Sartin, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari under that name until its demise in 1971. (Schiavina died in…
Caricatures in four parts | Caricature in quattro parti. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1908.
This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso (b. Naples, 1873; d. Naples, 1921). La Follia di New York published Caruso’s caricatures in individual…
Casa Savoia, Vol. II [House of Savoy, Vol. II]. East Boston: Ediz. de "L'Aurora", 1929.
A good example of the international nature of anarchism is reflected in the changing places of publishing of different volumes of the same work: Casa Savoia, Vol. I was published but in Buenos Aires in 1927, two years before the publication of this…
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…
Il fascismo [Fascism]. New York: Libreria del "Martello", [1922?].
Valera (b. Como 1850 - d. Milano 1926) was a prolific journalist and novelist - referred to as the "Zola of Italy" - who led an even more colorful life than his confreres among anti-fascists. He spent three years in prison in the late 1880s for his…
Il mio primo maestro: poemetto di Onorio Ruotolo [My First Master: a short poem of Onorio Ruotolo]. New York: La Lucerna, 1948.
Inscribed in 1951 on the verso of the title page by Ruotolo "al caro amico Hugo Rolland...[to {my} dear friend Hugo Rolland . . . " This is copy no. 110 of this "edizione limitata di 500 copie numerate [edition limitated to 500 numbered…
Il Proletario [The Worker], Anno 27. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923.
The full run of issues of Il Proletario from 1923, the companion volume of the 1924 full run in the collection.The front page of the May Day 1923 issue of Il Proletario feautres a striking cover illustration, captioned “The heads of the monstrous…
Il Proletario [The Worker], Anno 28. Chicago, Brooklyn: Industrial Workers of the World, 1924.
The full run of issues of Il Proletario from 1924, companion volume to the full run of 1923 issues also in the collection.This most important I.W.W. newspaper (which began in 1896 and lasted until 1946) was edited at various times by an all-star list…
Il Proletario [The Worker]. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923-1924.
The I.W.W. Italian language newspaper, Il Proletario, has a glorious and lengthy history of many decades and almost unique importance in the Italian American non-anarchist left. It was started by Italian socialists in 1896 in Pittburgh, and soon…
Il sistema rappresentativo e l'ideale [The Representative System and the Ideal]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1945.
While published in Newark, this work was printed in France at the "Imprimerie Commerciale de la Tribune Républicaine, Saint-Étienne".For a fuller bio of Max Sartin, see the description in La guerra che viene.
L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero Il segreto di Pulcinella [The Attempt on Mussolini: or the Secret of Pulcinella]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.
The premiere performance of this play opened at the Central Opera House, located at 205 East 67th Street in New York on Sunday, December 13, 1925. It was based on actual historical circumstances — namely, a staged attentato, or attempt (to…
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…
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…
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 Revolution, from its inception in 1917. The first few pages feature quotations in French (Romain Rolland)…
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…
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, copies of which are in the Rutgers & U. of Michigan libraries. On rear cover, notice that "Il…
Nazioni Unite [The United Nations Weekly of the "Mazzini Society"]. New York, 1942-1943.
The collection includes:Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 1 - 5 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 2 - 12 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 3 - 19 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 4 - 26 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno…
Per una concentrazione repubblicana-socialista in Italia [For a Republican-Socialist Integration in Italy]. Boston: Edizioni de Controcorrente, [1944].
A much later work of Salvemini, this essay is addressed to members of the Partita Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiana. He notes that many of the members have asked him to return to Italy, to which he responds that he has no right to participate in the…
Pervertimento: L'Antifascismo di Carlo Fama [Depravity: the anti-fascism of Carlo Fama]. New York: Libreria del Grido della Stirpe, [n.d.]
Trombetta (b. Aquila, 1885 - d. New York, ca. 1950s) was a freelance journalist who immigrated to the U.S. in 1903, became an American citizenship, and then lost it. He began his journalistic career at the L’Italia Nostra (Our Italy), a weekly…
Regolamento della Grande Loggia dello stato di New York: approvato dalla Convenzione Straordinaria di New York del Giugno 1919 ed emendato e approvato dalla Grande Convenzione Ordinario di Amsterdam, N.Y., dell'Agosto 1922 [Regulations of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York; approved by the Extraordinary Convention of New York, June 1919 and amended and approved by the Grand Lodge at the Regular Convention of Amsterdam, NY, of August 1922]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., [1922].
Order Sons of Italy; Ordine Figli d'Italia in America.
Spose di guerra: dramma in un atto [War Brides: drama in one act]. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1915].
This feminist, anti-war play is the best known work of socialist and suffragette Wentworth (b. 1872 - d. 1942); it's a topic that would have appealed to Carlo Tresca, proprietor of Il Martello and its book publishing arm. Tresca also used the…
Stato e comune [State and City]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1946.
Gigi Damiani (b. Rome, 1876; d. Rome, 1953) was an author well published in the U.S., but there is no evidence that he ever set foot in this country. Other than a few plays published in Detroit, and one in New York, the plays of Damiani were all…