L'urto di due mondi: poemetto [The Collision of Two Worlds: a short poem]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1938.

L'urto di due mondi: poemetto [The Collision of Two Worlds: a short poem]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1938.

Stamped on the title page - bare of any printed text except "L'Urto di due mondi" without "poemetto" much less author Zavattero's name -  is "Libreria SOCIALE Italiana, Giuseppe Popolizio E Co., 232 East 123rd ST., New York, N.Y." That the bookstore name is stamped, as is the price, rather than being printed, suggests that the work may well have been published in Europe, and was then distributed internationally to anarchists following the developments in Spain of the civil war there. 

Query whether this Popolizio is the same as the one whose bookstore is pasted on a slip on the title page of Verso il comunismo, q.v., namely Libreria Popolizio| Road 2 Box 1| Rivesville, W. Va. 26588. Note also in the publisher's note prefacing a collection of poems purportedly by Gigi Damiani (Sassate q.v.), the publisher's note is signed "G.P.", which is probably Giuseppe Popolizio, whose Libreria Popolizio (in 1952) sold Sassate, q.v.

Domenico Zavattero was an Italian anarchist editor, activist, and polemicist, known for his disputes with anarchic-individualists. He contributed to many anarchist periodicals, including Carlo Tresca's Il Martello, usually under the pseudonym of "Lolmo."

Something of a bibliographic oddity is that under the title on the cover are printed two mottoes, each in both Italian and Spanish: "Minaccia del passato: Arriba Espana!" and "Promesso per l'avvenire: No pasaran!"

The poem is, indeed, about the Spanish civil war, mentioning Guernica, Andalusia, Barcelona and other locales of the war in which many Italian leftists fought to defend the government from General Franco, while Fascist Party militia fought on the side of Franco.

Below that is stamped "10¢", under which is printed "Febbraio 1938."

[Domenico] Zavattero

[np]

1938

17.5 x 11cm; 15 p.

Italian