Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.
Title
Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.
Description
The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.
Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to Chicago. He lived in an apartment under Giuseppe Bertelli, the director of La Parola del Popolo, and became acquainted with him thereby.
He became a propagandist, traveling to mining towns in Illinois, Wisconsin & Iowa, contributing to La Cronaca Sovversiva. He had started an anarchist newspaper in Chicago, L'Allarme, and later traveled throughout the U.S. giving speeches that electrified people with his oratory. In 1917, to avoid the draft imposed on foreigners of draft age, he left the US to go to Mexico, whence he traveled throughout Central and South America.
In 1919, he left Buenos Aires to return to Italy, where he became licensed to be a teacher. A great polemicist, he showed in his articles in the Cronaca Sovversiva a lashing sarcasm turned against compromisers in anarchist and socialist movements.
This play takes place in a mining company town. Heroine Lina is desperate to not get thrown out of their hovel because they can't pay rent. Enzo, her husband, has been fired by Tonio, the evil boss and sexual predator. Lina agrees to give herself sexually to Tonio, in exchange for Enzo getting his job back. But her husband, Enzo, returns from his search for work elsewhere, shocked to find out what Lina was willing to do. Tonio arrives, expecting to have his way with Lina, but runs into the furious Enzo.
Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to Chicago. He lived in an apartment under Giuseppe Bertelli, the director of La Parola del Popolo, and became acquainted with him thereby.
He became a propagandist, traveling to mining towns in Illinois, Wisconsin & Iowa, contributing to La Cronaca Sovversiva. He had started an anarchist newspaper in Chicago, L'Allarme, and later traveled throughout the U.S. giving speeches that electrified people with his oratory. In 1917, to avoid the draft imposed on foreigners of draft age, he left the US to go to Mexico, whence he traveled throughout Central and South America.
In 1919, he left Buenos Aires to return to Italy, where he became licensed to be a teacher. A great polemicist, he showed in his articles in the Cronaca Sovversiva a lashing sarcasm turned against compromisers in anarchist and socialist movements.
This play takes place in a mining company town. Heroine Lina is desperate to not get thrown out of their hovel because they can't pay rent. Enzo, her husband, has been fired by Tonio, the evil boss and sexual predator. Lina agrees to give herself sexually to Tonio, in exchange for Enzo getting his job back. But her husband, Enzo, returns from his search for work elsewhere, shocked to find out what Lina was willing to do. Tonio arrives, expecting to have his way with Lina, but runs into the furious Enzo.
Creator
Umberto Postiglione
Publisher
Ed. a cura del Circolo D'Emancipazione Sociale
Date
1939
Format
19 x 13cm; 22 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Umberto Postiglione, “Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 20, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/245.
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