Dalla Conca d'Oro al "Golden Gate": studii e impressioni di viaggi in America [From the Golden Valley to the "Golden Gate": studies and impressions of travels in America]. New York: Canorma Press, 1928. 

Dalla Conca d'Oro al "Golden Gate": studii e impressioni di viaggi in America [From the Golden Valley to the "Golden Gate": studies and impressions of travels in America]. New York: Canorma Press, 1928. 

As noted in the entry for Nicotri's work on the history of revolution and revolt in Sicily, of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer, educator and sociologist" who died at age 81.

While a student in Rome, he formed a volunteer battalion of students who fought on the side of the Greeks during their war of independence from Turkey.

Before the advent of Mussolini, Nicotri was one of Sicily's leading criminal lawyers.

In 1924 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies as a Socialist. Two years later he came to the U.S. as a political refugee.

Of this work: a handsome photo frontispiece shows Luther Burbank and the author in a partial embrace. 

Nicotri dedicated the work to his family who has suffered much, he says, for his "immutable faith in a better Humanity."

At the outset, Nicotri decries the "Nordic nonsense," to use Columbia University anthropologist Franz Boas's formulation, to debunk the so-called inferiority of Southern Italians.

Among the places he visits in the U.S. described in the work are California (especially a number of towns in Marin County, where he meets Burbank), Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Boston, in addition of course to New York. He also discusses the reception of his "great proposal" for capitalism to reduce poverty and inequality in the world.

Gaspare Nicotri

Canorma Press

1928

20x14cm; 128 p.

Italian