Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America [Italians in the United States]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1906.

Published as a result of the organizing committee of the 1906 Milan Exposition directing Italian Chambers of Commerce around the world to prepare a volume in a series about “gli Italiani all’estero” (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was an ambitious one, a collaboration with, and actually published by, the same publisher in the year following the more conventional 1905 Italian American Directory (q.v.).

Part I of this rare elephant folio work contains essays by what can be considered an all-star cast of Italian writers, all of whom are featured in the collection, from then inspector of immigration Adolfo Rossi on Italian manpower in the U.S., Alfonso Arbib-Costa on Italians in public schools, Alfredo Bosi, on the failure of the Italian colony in New York to establish a true Italian school, Bernardino Ciambelli on Columbus Day, and Amy Bernardy on the Italians of Boston. Part II comprises 290 of the 473-page total, and is a directory of advertisements and summaries of Italian American businesses. Included here is a description of Francesco Tocci and his Emporium Press, both of which publishers are represented in the Collection. There Tocci describes his goal of helping make Italian books available and popular among Americans as well as Italians. 

See the essay by Robert Viscusi, “Universal Exposition,” under "Essays" on the website, for a brilliant dissection of the multiple meanings and purposes of this volume.