I nostri fiori alla patria [Our Flowers for the Homeland]. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1924.

I nostri fiori alla patria [Our Flowers for the Homeland]. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1924.

I nostri fiori is a collection gathered by Di Vita of poems by others of homage to Italy, either as “la patria” (the fatherland) or as “soave madre gentile” (kind, sweet mother), with an occasional expression of hope that fascism would prevail.

Di Vita (b. Palermo, 1880; d. New York, 1939), who immigrated to America in 1905 or 1906, directed several literary newspapers and founded the Cenacolo Artistico Letterario Vincenzo De Simone. He also published several volumes of poetry, generally in the Sicilian dialect.

Di Vita's nationalistic and gently fascistic attitude hardened not long after, and in 1933 he published a massive, 12-volume work dedicated to “Il Duce,” the Raccolte del Decennale, an exhaustive, detailed documentation of all published works in the two Americas pertaining to fascism.

Rosario Di Vita

Societa Tipografica Italiana

1924

20 x 13cm; 111 p.

Italian