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Sull'Oceano [On the Ocean]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1897.
De Amicis (b. 1846 Piedmonte-Sardegna - d. 1908 Bordighera, Italy) was a novelist, journalist, travel-writer, poet and short-story writer. In 1896, just a year before publication of Sull'Oceano, De Amicis became a member of the Italian Socialist…
Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.
Ruggiero (b. Grottole 1878 - d. Grassano 1959) was an Italian journalist who had taken a degree in surgery in Italy. He was a socialist in Naples, then took refuge from the police in an anarchist group.At the age of 29, in 1907, he emigrated to the…
Un viaggio nell' America del Nord [A Trip in North America]. Torino: Uff. Delle Let. Cattoliche, 1906.
The author is Padre Laurenti, "di C. di G.", which I believe means Laurenti was a Jesuit (the "Compagnia di Gesu" or Society of Jesus). His interest in North America, and a focus of his travels in this report, is the spread of the Catholic religion…
Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.
Siciliani (b. 1879 Ciro, Calabria - d. Roma 1938) was capo (or head) di Stato Maggiore (the general staff) to General Pietro Badoglio at the time of publishing this work about his trip to America. The work begins with a facsimile of a handwritten…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.
This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia italiana-inglese, q.v. Included is a history of the U.S., discussions on religion, politics, commerce…
New-York. Milano: Giuseppe Galli, Ed., 1884.
New-York reflects a frankness, thoroughness, intensity and texture in Italian about the experiences of Italians in America that is largely lacking in English-language works by Italian Americans, who were in general loathe to disclose their dirty…
Attraverso gli Stati Uniti per l'imagrazione italiana [Across the United States - through Italian Immigration]. Torino: Union Tip.-Ed. Torinese, 1913.
This copy of the celebrated study by Mayor des Planches (b. Turin, 1851; d. Rome, 1920), written during his years in the U.S., is inscribed by the author to a baronessa. During his travels across the U.S., while ambassador to Washington from…
America amara [Bitter America]. Firenze: Sansoni, 1940.
Cecchi was a literary and arts critic and writer, born in Firenze, who worked there and in Rome. He was a friend both of Giovanni Pappini, philosopher and writer, and of Giovanni Gentile, the "philosopher of fascism." Durante notes that Cecchi was…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.
Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other publications.In 1915, he was a second in a duel for the "cold and Nordic" anarchist lawyer Francesco Saverio…