Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.
Title
Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.
Description
A string-tied binding, like this one, and with deckled foredge, was an expensive way to produce books, and thus unusual in books published by Italians in the U.S. On the verso of the title page is "copyright 1909 by Prof. Giuseppe Cadicamo."
Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1894 - d. New York 1921) published this free translation version of two well-known poems by Tennyson on the centenary of his birth. Cadicamo was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. In his dedication, Cadicamo lauds the great Victorian poet as an “impassioned and constant friend of Italy and of Garibaldi.” He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia, he later, in 1891, founded a boarding school in Astoria, the Dante Alighieri school, designed to prevent the loss of Italian language and culture among the children of Italian immigrants.
A colorful figure in New York’s Italian colony, Cadicamo is depicted by Bernardino Ciambelli in two novels, including La trovatella di Mulberry Street, in the Collection, where he figures as composer of a chorus set to music by countess Gilda Ruta. This is one of a handful of books in the Collection that bears the imprint of Francesco Tocci, who a few years after the publication of this work, became the first president of the Italian Book Company - Società Libraria Italiana.
Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1894 - d. New York 1921) published this free translation version of two well-known poems by Tennyson on the centenary of his birth. Cadicamo was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. In his dedication, Cadicamo lauds the great Victorian poet as an “impassioned and constant friend of Italy and of Garibaldi.” He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia, he later, in 1891, founded a boarding school in Astoria, the Dante Alighieri school, designed to prevent the loss of Italian language and culture among the children of Italian immigrants.
A colorful figure in New York’s Italian colony, Cadicamo is depicted by Bernardino Ciambelli in two novels, including La trovatella di Mulberry Street, in the Collection, where he figures as composer of a chorus set to music by countess Gilda Ruta. This is one of a handful of books in the Collection that bears the imprint of Francesco Tocci, who a few years after the publication of this work, became the first president of the Italian Book Company - Società Libraria Italiana.
Creator
Giuseppe Cadicamo
Publisher
Francesco Tocci, Ed.
Date
1909
Format
22 x 14cm; 21 p.
Citation
Giuseppe Cadicamo, “Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/27.
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