Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
Title
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
Description
Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a Richiesta [manufacturer of artistic calendars and illustrated postcards | catalogue on request]"; Printed in Milano, tipografia E. Zerboni, via Fiamma 7.
Concordia (b. 1877 (Asigliano Vercellese, Vercelli, Piemonte) - d. 1942?) was a dedicated anarchist, imprisoned several times in Italy for articles in L'Agitatore and similar publications that incited "class hatred." He slipped in and out of Italy, often using pseudonyms, but there is no evidence that he joined any of his many fellow anarchists in the U.S.
The collection has several Elvira Catello publications, i.e., U.S. imprints, but her bookstore imported many socialist and anarchist works from Italy like this one.
This appears to be the rare case of a woman-owned - Italian or otherwise - bookstore in that period of U.S. history.
Catello, an immigrant from Locorotondo, Puglia, is the subject of a 2011 work by American historian and distinguished Italian-Americanist Jennifer Guglielmo, and several scholars from Italy, entitled Elvira Catello e la "Lux" tra utopia e liberta; una pacifista pugliese a New York nel 900 [Elvira Catello and the "Lux" between utopia and liberty; a pacifist Pugliese in New York in the 1900s]. Bari: Edizioni dal Sud.
Concordia (b. 1877 (Asigliano Vercellese, Vercelli, Piemonte) - d. 1942?) was a dedicated anarchist, imprisoned several times in Italy for articles in L'Agitatore and similar publications that incited "class hatred." He slipped in and out of Italy, often using pseudonyms, but there is no evidence that he joined any of his many fellow anarchists in the U.S.
The collection has several Elvira Catello publications, i.e., U.S. imprints, but her bookstore imported many socialist and anarchist works from Italy like this one.
This appears to be the rare case of a woman-owned - Italian or otherwise - bookstore in that period of U.S. history.
Catello, an immigrant from Locorotondo, Puglia, is the subject of a 2011 work by American historian and distinguished Italian-Americanist Jennifer Guglielmo, and several scholars from Italy, entitled Elvira Catello e la "Lux" tra utopia e liberta; una pacifista pugliese a New York nel 900 [Elvira Catello and the "Lux" between utopia and liberty; a pacifist Pugliese in New York in the 1900s]. Bari: Edizioni dal Sud.
A writer as well as publisher and bookstore owner, she was the guiding force of one of the most important political-cultural circles of an anarchic and libertarian tendancy in New York. A pacifist and thus opposed to militarism, she founded, together with her husband Elio Perrini, the Libreria Ed. "Lux", a real pole of diffusion within the anarcho-radical Italian American press.
She was also the set designer of a theatrical company whose plays had women at the forefront, a fact that attracted the attention of the whole American feminist movement.
Creator
Tomaso Concordia
Publisher
Libreria Editrice Sociale
Date
1911
Format
16 x 11.5cm; 31 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Tomaso Concordia, “Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed May 2, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/56.
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