Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.
Title
Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.
Description
Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to assassinate the king, and succeeded.
His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a suicide, but is believed to have been murder, as this afterward about the "mysterious death" of Bresci while a captive attests to.
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 Piemonte 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.
His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a suicide, but is believed to have been murder, as this afterward about the "mysterious death" of Bresci while a captive attests to.
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 Piemonte 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
Amilcare Cipriani
Publisher
Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica
Date
1901
Format
16.5 x 12cm; 40 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Amilcare Cipriani, “Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 6, 2026, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/54.
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