Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.

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Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.

Description

Some years after Dramas, Flamma succeeded in getting Fiamme translated and published in English as Flames & Other Plays (New York, 1928). This volume consists of two works: the popular first-named play, originally written, performed, and published in Rome in 1906 (before getting a second life with this publication), followed by Memorie di un suicida, a short story.

Even the American edition carried a notice relevant only in Italy for anyone wanting to perform the play: "In Italia, per la recita di Fiamme, rivolgersi alla Società dei Autori, via Nazionale 143 Roma." For copyright "In America, rivolgersi all'avvocato C. L. Fasullo, 732 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY."

Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) emigrated to America in t he first decade of the 20th century. During the First World War, he was a volunteer in the U.S. army. He lived in Chicago as secretary of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, and then moved to New York, where between 1922 and 1924 he was the director of the magazine Il Vaglio. “I have been in America for ten years, stubbornly following the bitter and harsh path of art. I am still surprised that I have not yet forgotten my Italian, given that the three million Italians in America speak every dialect but Italian.”

Flamma claimed preeminence for having pioneered attempts to draw middle-class themes onto the popular stage of New York’s Little Italy (though he also boasted of successes on Broadway). He was one of the few Italian writers of the era who managed to get his work translated into English.

Creator

Ario Flamma

Publisher

Nicoletti Bros. Editori

Date

1911

Format

18 x 11.5cm; 91 p.

Language

Italian

Citation

Ario Flamma, “Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/172.

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