La scintilla: canti popolari [The Spark: Popular Songs]. Palermo: Stab. Tip. Pietro Nocera, 1883.

La scintilla: canti popolari [The Spark: Popular Songs]. Palermo: Stab. Tip. Pietro Nocera, 1883.

It is a guess, but perhaps a good one, that the Palermitan who published this 1883 work in that Sicilian city - with the unconventional (for Italians) last-name-first-name - is the same author who would, as late as more than four decades later, in America, write about Sicilian knights in I tre cavalieri di Trinacria, and the crazy swirl of life in the largest city in the U.S. in I misteri di New York.

However, given that it was published 46 years prior to the later of the two New York-based works published by the same named author, it's possible that La scintilla was published by the father of the New York writer.

Menotti Pellegrino

Stab. Tip. Pietro Nocera

1883

18.5 x 12cm; 433 p.

Italian