Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.
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Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.
Description
Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th) collection of Gori's poems; it includes poems written in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Naples, Lugano, Liverpool, London, Edinburgh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Trieste, and in San Vittore prison.
Pietro Gori (b. Messina 1865 - d. Portoferraio 1911) was an Italian lawyer, journalist, intellectual, anarchist poet, and charismatic figure of the order of Galleani, Giovannitti and Tresca. At a young age, in 1887, he was arrested for writing an epigraph praising I martiri di Chicago, i.e., those arrested during the Haymarket Riots in Chicago. He was arrested for organizing Primo Maggio demonstrations in Livorno and elsewhere. He worked for a time in the law office of Filippo Turati.
After passage of the anti-anarchist laws of 1894, he was accused by the bourgeois press in Italy of inspiring the murder of the French President, Sadi Carnot. He fled to Lugano, Switzerland to avoid a sentence of five years imprisonment, but was expelled from that country; after traveling in Germany and Belgium, he ended up in London in 1895, where he came to know the principal exponents of worldwide anarchism.
From there, he went to New York, where among other things, he founded and then wrote for La Questione Sociale, and succeeded Francesco Saverio Merlino as the apostle of anarchism among the Italians in the U.S., giving hundreds of lectures on a nationwide tour. Then he returned in 1896 to London, where he was the U.S. workers' delegate to the second Congresso dell'Internazionale Socialista.
He suffered a second exile from Italy in 1898 following the bread riots in Milan and elsewhere (over the increase in the price of bread), after which the government cracked down further on leftists and their organizations.
This is one of many of Gori's collections of poetry, written on the run, as noted from many locations in North and South America, as well as in Lugano (where he'd first gone in exile), as well as several locales in the UK.
Virgilia D'Andrea gave a talk at Cooper Union in New York on Gori on January 6, 1929, see her Richiamo all'Anarchia. And an essay by Gori appears in the Almanacco Sovversivo 1916, q.v.
Pietro Gori (b. Messina 1865 - d. Portoferraio 1911) was an Italian lawyer, journalist, intellectual, anarchist poet, and charismatic figure of the order of Galleani, Giovannitti and Tresca. At a young age, in 1887, he was arrested for writing an epigraph praising I martiri di Chicago, i.e., those arrested during the Haymarket Riots in Chicago. He was arrested for organizing Primo Maggio demonstrations in Livorno and elsewhere. He worked for a time in the law office of Filippo Turati.
After passage of the anti-anarchist laws of 1894, he was accused by the bourgeois press in Italy of inspiring the murder of the French President, Sadi Carnot. He fled to Lugano, Switzerland to avoid a sentence of five years imprisonment, but was expelled from that country; after traveling in Germany and Belgium, he ended up in London in 1895, where he came to know the principal exponents of worldwide anarchism.
From there, he went to New York, where among other things, he founded and then wrote for La Questione Sociale, and succeeded Francesco Saverio Merlino as the apostle of anarchism among the Italians in the U.S., giving hundreds of lectures on a nationwide tour. Then he returned in 1896 to London, where he was the U.S. workers' delegate to the second Congresso dell'Internazionale Socialista.
He suffered a second exile from Italy in 1898 following the bread riots in Milan and elsewhere (over the increase in the price of bread), after which the government cracked down further on leftists and their organizations.
This is one of many of Gori's collections of poetry, written on the run, as noted from many locations in North and South America, as well as in Lugano (where he'd first gone in exile), as well as several locales in the UK.
Virgilia D'Andrea gave a talk at Cooper Union in New York on Gori on January 6, 1929, see her Richiamo all'Anarchia. And an essay by Gori appears in the Almanacco Sovversivo 1916, q.v.
Creator
Pietro Gori
Publisher
Ed. Moderna
Date
1948
Format
17 x 12cm; 96 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Pietro Gori, “Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed May 1, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/195.
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