Poesie di Thomas Fragale [Poems of Thomas Fragale]. Kansas City: Tipografia Mario Porretti, [1929].

Poesie di Thomas Fragale [Poems of Thomas Fragale]. Kansas City: Tipografia Mario Porretti, [1929].

Born in 1855, Fragale emigrated from a town near Catanzaro in Calabria in 1892. He wrote poetry while pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hammondton, NJ, until 1900. The generally patriotic and pro-monarchial tone of his verses separates him from most other Italian American poets. A follower of D'Annunzio, he exalted the grand undertaking, according to Durante, and wrote poetry in the manner of Manzoni, e.g., on the occasions of the deaths of Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I. He died in Pittsburgh, PA in 1929.

Thomas Fragale

Tipografia Mario Porretti

[1929]

15 x 10.5cm; 108 p.

Italian