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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…
Storia della Sicilia nelle rivoluzioni e rivolte [Story of Sicily in Revolutions and Revolts]. New York: Italian Publishers, 1934.
This is an unnumbered signed copy ("ogni copia deve portare la firma dell'autore [every copy should carry the signature of the author]").Of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer,…
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 bandierina di Carlo Marx: dramma in un atto [The Pennant of Karl Marx: drama in one act]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., [1917?]
It is unclear if this play, which is noted in Durante's text but not his bibliography, was ever produced. It reflects the ideal of international solidarity of the proletariat. Born into a family of Italian landed proprietors, Molinari (b. 1876- d.…
L'assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti [The Assassination of Giacomo Matteotti]. New York: A cura dell'Italian-American Labor Council, New York City, 1945.
Preface by Luigi Antonini. Modigliani (b. Livorno 1872 - d. Roma 1947) was an attorney and politician, a Socialist Party Deputy, and brother of Amedeo Modigliani, the painter. His position as an anti-fascist was close to that of Gaetano Salvemini. He…
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 vate etneo: conferenza tenuta a New York, in commemorazione di MARIO RAPISARDI, nell'Aula Magna del Normal College di Park Ave. sotto gli auspici del Circolo Italiano fra studentesse del medesimo Istituto [The Etnean Poet: lecture given in New York, in commemoration of MARIO RAPISARDI, in the Great Hall of the Normal College of Park Avenue under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano of the female students of that same Institute.] New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1914.
Preface by Matteo Teresi, on whom, see, in the collection, Con la patria nel cuore. La mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart. My propaganda among the immigrants] (Palermo: D’Antoni, 1925), and discussion there of Teresi's…
Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.
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…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].
The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of…
Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.
This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jurty by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate Eugene Debs on September 12, 1918.Note the compliance with a legal requirement of a representation…
Scienza e fede [Science and Faith]. Philadelphia: Social Printing Co., 1908.
Barbato (b. 1856, Piana dei Greci, d. 1923, Milan) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician, one of the national leaders of the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues), a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in…
Almanacco Sovversivo 1916 [Subversive Almanac 1916]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
After a 15-page almanac of historical events associated with each day of the year, there are essays by Luisa Migel, Pietro Gori, Joe Hill, and Clifford Howard. List of "opere" and "opuscoli" by anarchists are in the rear. Rear cover: "La Nostra…
1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.
In the 62 pages of this work are essays by various writers. Of particular note at the end, however, is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica.
La morale di Arlecchino [The Moral of Arlecchino]. Chicago: Tip. "La Parola", [n.d.]
While not a play as such, this small pamphlet, first published in Treviso in 1898, tells the dramatic tale of the troubles of an oppressed, slow-thinking comedic servant, a harlequin in the commedia dell'arte style of melodrama, a method used by…
Il libro annuale del lavoratore italiano in America 1927 [The Italian Labor Year Book 1927]. [New York?]: Federazione Italiana del Partito Socialista d'America, 1927.
Eugene Debs on cover, & Debs introduction ("Man, Woman and Child in the Conception of Debs"; oration of Norman Thomas; preface by Morris Hilquit, Anna Kuliscioff.
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 12. New York, 15 Giugno [June] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 11. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 9. New York, 15 Marzo [March] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 8. New York, 15 Febbraio [February] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 6. New York, 15 Decembre [December] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 5. New York, 15 Novembre [November] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 4. New York, 15 Ottobre [October] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 3. New York, 15 Settembre [September] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 2. New York, 15 Agosto [August] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 1. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1925.
Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however, there is no trace in bibliographies or…