Geremiade al Bambino Gesù [Jeremiad to the Baby Jesus]. New York: La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco, 1948 [Monthly religious and cultural magazine directed by Scilla de Glauco].
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Geremiade al Bambino Gesù [Jeremiad to the Baby Jesus]. New York: La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco, 1948 [Monthly religious and cultural magazine directed by Scilla de Glauco].
Description
Ruotolo, a close friend of Arturo Giovannitti, spent his infancy in Campagna, according to Francesco Durante, and went to Naples to study sculpting with Vincenzo Gemito.
In 1908, he moved to New York, to sculpt. He was a teacher at and co-founder of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School in New York for working men, whose most famous graduate was sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi. Many famous Americans as well as Italians, including Jack London and Theodore Dreiser, Enrico Caruso and Rodolfo Valentino, and Helen Keller, all posed for him.
Later, he was accused by Carlo Tresca of being too soft on fascism and perhaps even pro-fascist, a perhaps natural evolution from his long-time nationalism. The Collection contains several chapbooks of Ruotolo, q.v. As a patriotic Italian, he read aloud Antonio Calitri's poem "L'Italia!" at a protest organized by L'Araldo Italiano in 1911 against wrongful depictions of Italians in the American press. He dedicated poems to some of his favorite fellow Italian writers, such as Italo Stanco.
In 1908, he moved to New York, to sculpt. He was a teacher at and co-founder of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School in New York for working men, whose most famous graduate was sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi. Many famous Americans as well as Italians, including Jack London and Theodore Dreiser, Enrico Caruso and Rodolfo Valentino, and Helen Keller, all posed for him.
Later, he was accused by Carlo Tresca of being too soft on fascism and perhaps even pro-fascist, a perhaps natural evolution from his long-time nationalism. The Collection contains several chapbooks of Ruotolo, q.v. As a patriotic Italian, he read aloud Antonio Calitri's poem "L'Italia!" at a protest organized by L'Araldo Italiano in 1911 against wrongful depictions of Italians in the American press. He dedicated poems to some of his favorite fellow Italian writers, such as Italo Stanco.
Creator
Onorio Ruotolo
Publisher
La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco
Date
1948
Format
25 x 15.5cm; 8 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Onorio Ruotolo, “Geremiade al Bambino Gesù [Jeremiad to the Baby Jesus]. New York: La Lucerna: rivista mensile religiosa culturale diretta da Scilla de Glauco, 1948 [Monthly religious and cultural magazine directed by Scilla de Glauco].,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed May 2, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/262.
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