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Memorie di vita di tempeste sociali [Recollections of a Life in Social Storms]. Chicago: A cura del Comitato "Vittorio Buttis," 1940.
The gorgeous cover art is by Fort Velona, one of the great graphic artists (see Sotto il segno del littorio, q.v.) and labor organizers active in leftist causes. The preface is by radical activist Angelica Balabanoff, q.v. The title page of this work…
Il Solco: rivista mensile di cultura popolare [The Furrow: monthly review of popular culture], Anno 1, No. 9. New York: Il Solco Publishing Co., September 1927.
Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Jan. - Sept. 1927) are in the collection; these issues contain part of Vacirca's novel Il rogo [The Pyre]; according to Durante, Il rogo continues into 1928.Vincenzo Vacirca (b. Sicily, 1886; d. Italy, 1956) was a member of the…
Il Solco: rivista mensile di cultura popolare [The Furrow: monthly review of popular culture]. New York: Il Solco Publishing Co., January - September 1927.
A monthly periodical edited by Vincenzo Vacirca. Contains part of novel Il rogo [The Pyre] by Vacirca; according to Durante, Il rogo continues into 1928. Vincenzo Vacirca (b. Sicily, 1886; d. Italy, 1956) was a member of the Socialist Party of…
Tolstoismo e anarchismo: rapporto presentato al Congresso Operaio Rivoluzionario Internazionale di Parigi dal Gruppo degli Studenti Socialisti Rivoluzionarii Internazionalisti di Parigi [Tolstoyism and anarchism: Report presented to the Revolutionary Working-Class International Congress of Paris of the Socialist Students Revolutionary International Group of Paris]. Barre: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1900?]
The anarchists of Barre were a colorful group. Frequently on the run from the postal or other federal authorities for his publishing and anarchist activities, and looking for a new base of operations after a short time in Paterson, Luigi Galleani and…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 parola del popolo: rivista bimestrale: Cinquantesimo (50) Anniversario 1908-1958 [The Word of the People: bimonthly review: 50th Anniversary 1908-1958]. Chicago: La Parola del Popolo Publishing Assoc., 1958.
One of the longest-lived of the socialist publications, La Parola went through many name changes to evade postal authorities and for other reasons. This is a large-format, 336-page commemorative edition for the 50th anniversary of the newspaper whose…