John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939.

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Title

John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939.

Description

The book opens with an adulatory preface by "Italian Book Co.," probably De Martino himself.

This is one of the relatively few works published by the Italian Book Company in English, presumably to reach a wider audience of Italian American readers not so fluent in Italian as the publisher’s usual readers.

From the photo (shot from below) of Mussolini on the cover, rather than an image of the ostensible subject of the book, we already realize that the publisher thought the author more important than the book’s subject.

Indeed, the publisher describes this as a youthful work of Mussolini about the 14th–15th century Bohemian heretic, Jan Hus, one in which the dictator’s - not Hus's - “luminous genius is shown,” adding that this work shows Mussolini’s early perception that “the Italians of tomorrow will not be as the Italians of yesterday,” as Italy is “in a process of formation,” with the “powerful propulsion of his will power,” by which Mussolini has “changed the face of Italy, reconstructing the Second Empire of Rome.”

Creator

Benito Mussolini

Publisher

Italian Book Co.

Date

1939

Format

20 x 13.5cm; 151 p.

Language

English

Citation

Benito Mussolini, “John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/223.

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