I tre cavalieri di Trinacria [The Three Sicilian Horsemen]. New York: [n.p.] [G.P. Printing], 1929.
Title
I tre cavalieri di Trinacria [The Three Sicilian Horsemen]. New York: [n.p.] [G.P. Printing], 1929.
Description
This cloak-and-dagger “historical novel” set in mid-19th century Sicily, is prefaced with a poem that praises fascism and wishes Mussolini a long life, follows Pellegrino’s first novel, I misteri di New York, q.v., by some 26 years.
Francesco Durante and Martino Marazzi mention Pellegrino in their scholarly work, and the Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries issued for the year 1929 lists this novel.
In the Italian libraries system, I discovered that Pellegrino also wrote the verses for music published in 1935: Adua: Marcia patriottica/musica di Vittorio Scala; versi di Menotti Pellegrino. We know this is our author because the frontispiece notes that I tre cavalieri di Trinacria is one of the other works by the same author, as are poems, I martiri di Dogali and 'Osanna a Fede contro il 18 novembre 1935.
The Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 [C] Group 3: dramatic compositions and motion pictures. for the year 1938 lists I tre cavalieri with the subject heading “Madre Sicilia,” its location in that section suggesting Pellegrino adapted his work to either a screenplay or a stage play.
The 1940 volume of the Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 [C] Group 3: dramatic compositions and motion pictures. New Series 1940, lists Pellegrino's 1937 copyrighted work, Umano sole: opera lirica-drammatica. I find no copy of this work in any American or Italian libraries.
Finally, I have found a book of poetry published in Palermo many (46) years before this work (i.e., in 1883) by one Menotti Pellegrino - the unconventional "last name first name" as well as the subject matter suggests it is the same writer - La scintilla: canti popolari. The Collection contains a rare copy of this work.
Francesco Durante and Martino Marazzi mention Pellegrino in their scholarly work, and the Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries issued for the year 1929 lists this novel.
In the Italian libraries system, I discovered that Pellegrino also wrote the verses for music published in 1935: Adua: Marcia patriottica/musica di Vittorio Scala; versi di Menotti Pellegrino. We know this is our author because the frontispiece notes that I tre cavalieri di Trinacria is one of the other works by the same author, as are poems, I martiri di Dogali and 'Osanna a Fede contro il 18 novembre 1935.
The Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 [C] Group 3: dramatic compositions and motion pictures. for the year 1938 lists I tre cavalieri with the subject heading “Madre Sicilia,” its location in that section suggesting Pellegrino adapted his work to either a screenplay or a stage play.
The 1940 volume of the Library of Congress’s Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 [C] Group 3: dramatic compositions and motion pictures. New Series 1940, lists Pellegrino's 1937 copyrighted work, Umano sole: opera lirica-drammatica. I find no copy of this work in any American or Italian libraries.
Finally, I have found a book of poetry published in Palermo many (46) years before this work (i.e., in 1883) by one Menotti Pellegrino - the unconventional "last name first name" as well as the subject matter suggests it is the same writer - La scintilla: canti popolari. The Collection contains a rare copy of this work.
Creator
Menotti Pellegrino
Publisher
[n.p.] [G.P. Printing]
Date
1929
Format
22.5 x 14.5cm; 411 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Menotti Pellegrino, “I tre cavalieri di Trinacria [The Three Sicilian Horsemen]. New York: [n.p.] [G.P. Printing], 1929.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed May 2, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/241.
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