Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.
Title
Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.
Description
Born in Modena in 1877, Forzato-Spezia emigrated with her husband to the U.S. in 1891, and settled in West Hoboken, NJ.
She opened a bookstore there renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she had joined the Federazione Socialista Italiana, and her name became associated with that of important revolutionary socialists and syndicalists, such as Edmondo Rossoni, Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Camillo Cianfarra and others.
Forzato-Spezia gave dozens of lectures (e.g., Il Vate Etneo, q.v.) to socialist and anarchist gatherings. She regularly wrote articles and poems for radical publications, emphasizing education and knowledge as a precondition of revolutionary organizing.
In the instant work, she attacked traditional teaching and advocated a rational, secular and libertarian education, rather than that of conventional schools, which had become "the most powerful instrument of domination and enslavement." She criticized average Italian immigrants as "squat, lazy and slack." With the outbreak of WWI, in nationalist pride she joined with Rossoni in support of Italy's intervention. In 1915, she founded a fiercely nationalist newspaper with Rossoni and Onorio Ruotolo. She returned to Italy in 1926, and later registered in the Fascist Party, openly in favor of the regime.
The bio of the author is drawn from Marcella Bencivenni.
Preface by Eligio Strobino, an anarchist who (according to Rudolf Vecoli) a few years later, was among those who were discouraged by the deportation of anarchists like Galleani, and the tar-and-feathering of anti-war and labor organizers, like Nino Capraro, and were thereby silenced, dropping out of the anarchist movement.
She opened a bookstore there renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she had joined the Federazione Socialista Italiana, and her name became associated with that of important revolutionary socialists and syndicalists, such as Edmondo Rossoni, Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Camillo Cianfarra and others.
Forzato-Spezia gave dozens of lectures (e.g., Il Vate Etneo, q.v.) to socialist and anarchist gatherings. She regularly wrote articles and poems for radical publications, emphasizing education and knowledge as a precondition of revolutionary organizing.
In the instant work, she attacked traditional teaching and advocated a rational, secular and libertarian education, rather than that of conventional schools, which had become "the most powerful instrument of domination and enslavement." She criticized average Italian immigrants as "squat, lazy and slack." With the outbreak of WWI, in nationalist pride she joined with Rossoni in support of Italy's intervention. In 1915, she founded a fiercely nationalist newspaper with Rossoni and Onorio Ruotolo. She returned to Italy in 1926, and later registered in the Fascist Party, openly in favor of the regime.
The bio of the author is drawn from Marcella Bencivenni.
Preface by Eligio Strobino, an anarchist who (according to Rudolf Vecoli) a few years later, was among those who were discouraged by the deportation of anarchists like Galleani, and the tar-and-feathering of anti-war and labor organizers, like Nino Capraro, and were thereby silenced, dropping out of the anarchist movement.
Creator
Bellalma Forzato-Spezia
Publisher
Nicoletti Bros Press
Date
1911
Format
16.5 x 11cm; 31 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Bellalma Forzato-Spezia, “Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 27, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/173.
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