Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari) [Giorgio and Silvio (dialogue between servicemen)]. Paterson: A cura della Libreria Sociologica, [1916].
Title
Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari) [Giorgio and Silvio (dialogue between servicemen)]. Paterson: A cura della Libreria Sociologica, [1916].
Description
This is a dramatic dialogue concluding with the two soldiers cheering for anarchy and calling for death to the oppressor.
A dialogue between two people about political philosophy was a technique frequently employed by the left in works like this. See, e.g., Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero [At the Cafè: Honest Conversations], also published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore in Paterson that stocked one of the richest and most varied assortments of inexpensive books and pamphlets for anarchists and socialists in the U.S. These include social novels and dramas, as well as political tracts such as this one, in the form of a political conversation among various (in this case, five) fictional characters emblamatic of different stages of political education and sophistication.
The Libreria Sociologica was also a publisher, as this and at least a half-dozen other works in the collection attest to, q.v. This work appears to have been popular, given that cover and title page both indicate that it is the seventh edition.
Libreria Sociologica was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa Baronio and her companion, silkweaver Firmino Gallo.
After emigrating from Northern Italy to Paterson, New Jersey, Ninfa helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and performed in feminist plays; and, with Gallo, with whom she had six children, ran the Libreria Sociologica, said by historian Kenyon Zimmer to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature."
The Libreria Sociologica was a place where local anarchists gathered and bought Italian, French, and American anarchist literature, as well as Communist publications such as The New York Communist, Soviet Russia, and The Revolutionary Age. In the back room, the Slovenian anarchist Franz Widmar operated his L'Era Nuova (New Era) press.
In 1912, Firmino Gallo was arrested for displaying an anti-imperialist cartoon by Ludovico Caminita, q.v., in the bookstore window; he and Caminita were charged with inciting hostility against a foreign government.
Jennifer Guglielmo's Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1910) is a rich source of history of Baronio, Maria Roda and other important Italian women radicals in New York in that era.
A dialogue between two people about political philosophy was a technique frequently employed by the left in works like this. See, e.g., Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero [At the Cafè: Honest Conversations], also published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore in Paterson that stocked one of the richest and most varied assortments of inexpensive books and pamphlets for anarchists and socialists in the U.S. These include social novels and dramas, as well as political tracts such as this one, in the form of a political conversation among various (in this case, five) fictional characters emblamatic of different stages of political education and sophistication.
The Libreria Sociologica was also a publisher, as this and at least a half-dozen other works in the collection attest to, q.v. This work appears to have been popular, given that cover and title page both indicate that it is the seventh edition.
Libreria Sociologica was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa Baronio and her companion, silkweaver Firmino Gallo.
After emigrating from Northern Italy to Paterson, New Jersey, Ninfa helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and performed in feminist plays; and, with Gallo, with whom she had six children, ran the Libreria Sociologica, said by historian Kenyon Zimmer to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature."
The Libreria Sociologica was a place where local anarchists gathered and bought Italian, French, and American anarchist literature, as well as Communist publications such as The New York Communist, Soviet Russia, and The Revolutionary Age. In the back room, the Slovenian anarchist Franz Widmar operated his L'Era Nuova (New Era) press.
In 1912, Firmino Gallo was arrested for displaying an anti-imperialist cartoon by Ludovico Caminita, q.v., in the bookstore window; he and Caminita were charged with inciting hostility against a foreign government.
Jennifer Guglielmo's Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1910) is a rich source of history of Baronio, Maria Roda and other important Italian women radicals in New York in that era.
Creator
Emilio Silvieri
Publisher
A cura della Libreria Sociologica
Date
[1916]
Format
14.5 x 10.5cm; 16 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Emilio Silvieri, “Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari) [Giorgio and Silvio (dialogue between servicemen)]. Paterson: A cura della Libreria Sociologica, [1916].,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/277.
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