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Rapsodie Mussoliniane: a cura del Gruppo Legionari AOI dell'Associazione Italiani all'estero [Mussolinian Rhapsodies] edited by the Gruppo Legionari AOI of the Association of Italians Abroad]. Alburnus Publishing Co.: New York, 1938 - XVII.The author of this poetic paen to Mussolini, born in Ottati (SA) in Campagna, was an optometrist or ophthalmologist whose office was in Brooklyn. He…
Similar to Lu novu Tuppi Tuppi, this work is in verse in Sicilian dialect. Unlike the other work, this is comprised of 15 separate short poems on…
Raccolta di brindisi per ogni occasione in dialetto siciliano [Collection of toasts for every occasion in Sicilian dialect] [Facsimile]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana - Italian Book Company, 1916.With a publication date of 1916, this work appears to have preceded the enormously popular 1917 Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed…
Lu ciucciu. Poema in dialetto calabrese [The Donkey: poem in Calabrese dialect]. New York: Tipografia Sisca & Sons, 1913.The only known book-length publication of Alessandro and Marziale Sisca's father, Francesco Sisca, or of the publisher or printer that bore their…
Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era. Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd…
S. Giovannino [Saint Little John]. New York: [n.p.], 1946.Born in Palermo, Pietro Varvaro (active 1910-1950s) lived in New York in relative obscurity for the latter part of his life, visited often by Italian…
Petali sull'Onda: poesie [Petals on the Wave: poetry]. Bronx: Euclid Publishing Company, 1948.See the description of Peccato e luce of Tusiani for his biography.
Peccato e luce [Sin and Light]. New York: The Venetian Press, 1949.Giuseppe (later, Joseph) Tusiani (b. San Marco in Lamis (Puglia) 1924 - d. New York 2020) was a poet who composed in four languages - Italian,…
Poeti Calabresi in America [Calabrese Poets in America]. Bergamo: La Nuova Italia Letteraria, 1957.ALthough published in Bergamo, the author's introduction is dated New Kensington, PA, May 12, 1956. Calabrese poets whose undated work is included in…
Flamma Alitur [The Flame Still Burns]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.This copy inscribed by author to Il Carroccio. Preface by Luigi Roversi.Salvo (b. Italy, 1889; active in New York through 1948), a freelance…
Accordi e dissonanze [Harmonies and Dissonances]. Milano: Editrice Convivio Letterario, 1958.Several of the poems from this Italian original collection are translated in Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian…
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.…
Nel fuoco del rimorso [In the Fire of Remorse]. New York: La Lucerna, 1949.No. 103 of 500 numbered copies.For a biography of Ruotolo, see the description in Geremiade al Bambino Gesù.
Convito d'amore: poemetto [Boarding School of Love: a short poem]. New York: La Lucerna, 1949.No. 474 of 500 numbered copies.For Ruotolo's biography, see the description in Geremiade al Bambino Gesù.
Geremiade al Bambino Gesù [Jeremiad to the Baby Jesus]. New York: La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco, 1948 [Monthly religious and cultural magazine directed by Scilla de Glauco].Ruotolo, a close friend of Arturo Giovannitti, spent his infancy in Campagna, according to Francesco Durante, and went to Naples to study sculpting…
Lu sonnu di Monsignuri X: poimettu in lingua siciliana [The Sonnets of Monsignor X: Short Poem in Sicilian]. Brooklyn: Tip. Ital. del Rinascimento, 1912.Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well…
Rime [Rhymes]. Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1948.Inscribed in Italian by author 1949 to Dottore Giovanni Feo. I find nothing about the author in either the Schiavo or Flamma biographical volumes of…
La scintilla: canti popolari [The Spark: Popular Songs]. Palermo: Stab. Tip. Pietro Nocera, 1883.It is a guess, but perhaps a good one, that the Palermitan who published this 1883 work in that Sicilian city - with the unconventional (for Italians)…
Rapsodia napoletana [Neapolitan Rhapsody]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.Rapsodia napoletana is an epic story of the history of Naples from its founding as a Greek colony, composed of 105 sonnets written in the Neapolitan…
Napule d'Aiere [Naples of Yesteryear]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Le canzoni de l'ora [Songs of the Hour]. New York: Edizioni Sirena, 1945.On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.Maria Jaconis, author of this self-published work, was born in Aprigliano (CS) in 1931 and died in Cosenza in Calabria on March 16, 2023.In between,…
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,…
Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th)…
Quando canta il gallo [When the Rooster Crows]. Chicago: E. Clemente & Sons, 1957.This copy was inscribed by Arturo Giovannitti in January 1958, one year before his death, to his good friend, Onorio Ruotolo and his wife, Lucia.…