L'Adunata dei Refrattari [The Call of the "Refractaries"]. New York, 1945-1961.
Title
L'Adunata dei Refrattari [The Call of the "Refractaries"]. New York, 1945-1961.
Description
The collection includes:
L'Adunata dei Refrattari, Volume XXIV, Numero 7 - February 17, 1945
L'Adunata dei Refrattari, Volume XL, Number 8 - February 25, 1961.
L'Adunata was the "reborn" version of the Cronaca Sovversiva of Luigi Galleani (circulation between 3,200 and 5,000 between 1912 and 1918, according to Avrich 1991, 50 and Pernicone, Cannistraro & Meyer 2003, 81), which ceased publication when its founding editor and inspiration was deported from the United States to Italy in 1919.
L'Adunata was begun and run by Galleani's followers in the U.S. after Galleani’s deportation in 1919, and edited by Raffaele Schiavina, who wrote and published under the name "Max Sartin," q.v. several works of his in the Collection. Its circulation between 1922 and 1939 was reportedly 5,000 (Paul Berman, "The Torch and the Axe: The Unknown Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Affair." The Village Voice, 17 May 1988)
The publishing arm of L'Adunata - the Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari - released many full-length works (typically, collections of shorter pieces), like those in the Collection, q.v., as well as pamphlets, sometimes without Galleani’s authorization, due to his being unreachable in exile on the island of Lipari.
L’Adunata also published Galleani in Europe, e.g., in Rome as late as 1947, often using the same printer’s mark (a mermaid-like torchbearer) he used in the earliest of his works. The international character of the movement had long been clear: in one work, readers of an Italian-language edition of Organizzazione e anarchia, published in Paris (by L. Chauvet) sometime after 1925, are urged in a message in the inside rear cover to buy a copy of Galleani’s La fine dell’anarchismo?, published in the United States (Newark) in 1925.
L'Adunata dei Refrattari, Volume XXIV, Numero 7 - February 17, 1945
L'Adunata dei Refrattari, Volume XL, Number 8 - February 25, 1961.
L'Adunata was the "reborn" version of the Cronaca Sovversiva of Luigi Galleani (circulation between 3,200 and 5,000 between 1912 and 1918, according to Avrich 1991, 50 and Pernicone, Cannistraro & Meyer 2003, 81), which ceased publication when its founding editor and inspiration was deported from the United States to Italy in 1919.
L'Adunata was begun and run by Galleani's followers in the U.S. after Galleani’s deportation in 1919, and edited by Raffaele Schiavina, who wrote and published under the name "Max Sartin," q.v. several works of his in the Collection. Its circulation between 1922 and 1939 was reportedly 5,000 (Paul Berman, "The Torch and the Axe: The Unknown Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Affair." The Village Voice, 17 May 1988)
The publishing arm of L'Adunata - the Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari - released many full-length works (typically, collections of shorter pieces), like those in the Collection, q.v., as well as pamphlets, sometimes without Galleani’s authorization, due to his being unreachable in exile on the island of Lipari.
L’Adunata also published Galleani in Europe, e.g., in Rome as late as 1947, often using the same printer’s mark (a mermaid-like torchbearer) he used in the earliest of his works. The international character of the movement had long been clear: in one work, readers of an Italian-language edition of Organizzazione e anarchia, published in Paris (by L. Chauvet) sometime after 1925, are urged in a message in the inside rear cover to buy a copy of Galleani’s La fine dell’anarchismo?, published in the United States (Newark) in 1925.
Format
44x28cm
Language
Italian
Collection
Citation
“L'Adunata dei Refrattari [The Call of the "Refractaries"]. New York, 1945-1961.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed January 19, 2026, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/610.
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