1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.
Title
1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.
Description
In the 62 pages of this work are essays by various writers.
Of particular note at the end is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, which was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa Baronio and her companion, silkweaver Firmino Gallo.
After emigrating from Piemonte to Paterson, New Jersey, Ninfa helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and performed in feminist plays; and, with Gallo, with whom she had six children, ran the Libreria Sociologica, said by historian Kenyon Zimmer to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature."
The Libreria Sociologica was a place where local anarchists gathered and bought Italian, French, and American anarchist literature, as well as Communist publications such as The New York Communist, Soviet Russia, and The Revolutionary Age. In the back room, the Slovenian anarchist Franz Widmar operated his L'Era Nuova (New Era) press.
In 1912, Firmino Gallo was arrested for displaying an anti-imperialist cartoon by Ludovico Caminita, q.v., in the bookstore window; he and Caminita were charged with inciting hostility against a foreign government.
Jennifer Guglielmo's Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1910) is a rich source of history of Baronio, Maria Roda and other important Italian women radicals in New York in that era.
Of particular note at the end is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, which was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa Baronio and her companion, silkweaver Firmino Gallo.
After emigrating from Piemonte to Paterson, New Jersey, Ninfa helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and performed in feminist plays; and, with Gallo, with whom she had six children, ran the Libreria Sociologica, said by historian Kenyon Zimmer to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature."
The Libreria Sociologica was a place where local anarchists gathered and bought Italian, French, and American anarchist literature, as well as Communist publications such as The New York Communist, Soviet Russia, and The Revolutionary Age. In the back room, the Slovenian anarchist Franz Widmar operated his L'Era Nuova (New Era) press.
In 1912, Firmino Gallo was arrested for displaying an anti-imperialist cartoon by Ludovico Caminita, q.v., in the bookstore window; he and Caminita were charged with inciting hostility against a foreign government.
Jennifer Guglielmo's Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1910) is a rich source of history of Baronio, Maria Roda and other important Italian women radicals in New York in that era.
Creator
[Anon.]
Publisher
Libreria Sociologica
Date
1907
Format
21 x 15cm; 62 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
[Anon.], “1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 26, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/112.
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