Che cosa è la religione? [What is Religion?]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1906.
Title
Che cosa è la religione? [What is Religion?]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1906.
Description
Preface by Guido Podrecca. This atheist, anarchist tract by Ludovio Caminita, see other works by him in the Collection, the then editor of Paterson's La Questione Sociale, the anarchist newspaper. Caminita was soon afterward served with notice by the "Vigilance Committee of the Law and Order" of Paterson that they "intend to make the city too hot for him and other Anarchists who propagate teachings that tend to create the spirit of unrest and revolution among the workingmen of the city ..."
This is the Paterson edition of a work published in the same year in Italy, in Chieti, Tip. ed. di Sciullo. Copies of the Italian edition are common. This is the only copy of the Paterson edition that I have ever seen for sale in more than 20 years of looking for it. Camillo Di Sciullo was a noted anarchist newspaper editor and labor organizer from the province of Chieti (Abruzzo), who wrote to anarchists in North America through La Questione Sociale, q.v., and, as is the case here, published works in Chieti that were also published by the Libreria Sociologica.
Besides this work, the Collection includes other publications of the Libreria Sociologica of Paterson, including the 1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione, I delitti di Dio, Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari), Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero, and Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci and La peste religiosa.
About this most important radical publisher:
Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, 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.
This is the Paterson edition of a work published in the same year in Italy, in Chieti, Tip. ed. di Sciullo. Copies of the Italian edition are common. This is the only copy of the Paterson edition that I have ever seen for sale in more than 20 years of looking for it. Camillo Di Sciullo was a noted anarchist newspaper editor and labor organizer from the province of Chieti (Abruzzo), who wrote to anarchists in North America through La Questione Sociale, q.v., and, as is the case here, published works in Chieti that were also published by the Libreria Sociologica.
Besides this work, the Collection includes other publications of the Libreria Sociologica of Paterson, including the 1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione, I delitti di Dio, Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari), Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero, and Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci and La peste religiosa.
About this most important radical publisher:
Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, 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
Ludovico M. Caminita
Publisher
Libreria Sociologica
Date
1906
Format
22.5 x 15cm; 147 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Ludovico M. Caminita, “Che cosa è la religione? [What is Religion?]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1906.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 26, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/29.
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