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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Histories, philosophy, biographies, directories, bibliographies, almanacs, catalogues, annuals, religious, educational, and travel literature Subject The topic of the resource These largely non-political works reflect a broad pallette of non-fiction reflections on the history of Italians in the U.S., travel literature, biographies (like that of the Peanut King, Obici), or the religious, like Sister, later Mother, and final Saint Cabrini. Description An account of the resource In these non-fiction works, Italians reflected upon themselves and their American experiences. Representing the non-sovversivi type of immigrant, who were more interested in becoming American and “making it” in America than in stoking class warfare and remaking society, They began to place themselves in the context of contemporary American society and the history in America. The release in 1921 of Alfredo Bosi’s Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America, the first history of Italians in the United States, represented a watershed - the first 50 years of Italians in America - and allegedly arose from a conversation between journalist Bosi and King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy in 1901, in which the king expressed curiosity about the Italian colony in America. Luigi Roversi’s biography of Palma di Cesnola proudly places that Italian within the august homes of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, into which di Cesnola had married, and where he ruled as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than the first half of Flamma’s “biography” of the greatest mayor New York City had ever seen, Fiorello LaGuardia, has little to do with La Guardia, unfortunately, but the work did reflect his obvious pride that after electing mayors in 29 other cities, Italians “finally” elected (in 1933) a mayor of Italian heritage to the country’s most important city. The directories discussed here, from New York to San Francisco, provide a particularly rich source of information about the different businesses and professions Italians had in virtually every state of the union, from as early as the 1880s (in San Francisco) to the first few decades of the 20th Century (primarily in New York). Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource San Francisco e la sua catastrofe [San Francisco and its Catastrophe]. Tipografia Internazionale, 1906. Description An account of the resource After the Italians of New York, those of San Francisco (and Chicago) probably had the most well-developed network of periodical press, book press, theatre, literature of various types, associations and other forms of collective efforts, including unions. Crespi’s dramatic “you are there” description of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and of the killing fires that followed, would surely be considered one of the great accounts of that horrific event, had the work been written in or translated into English. “The night of the day following [the earthquake], after a forced march of 52 miles, on the hills that flanked the public gardens of the Golden Gate. . . suddenly, [I saw]. . . . the valley below, a valley on fire, an inferno. The eye could not see the extent of it. . . . there were sudden eruptions. . . .” This work also contains 27 photographs of the devastation, entitled “Tra le rovine” (Among the ruins). Like Pallavicini, Caminita and Cordiferro, Crespi was a political as well as a literary figure. An ardent and unremitting leader of California’s anarchists and socialists, Crespi (b. Milan, 1857 - d. San Francisco, 1948) was involved in a number of political newspapers and journals. He was author of <a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/59">Per la libertà</a> (For Liberty!), the book of revelations of Carlo Camillo Di Rudio, an Italian patriot and naturalized American who participated in the failed attempt on Napoleon III and fought in the battle of Little Bighorn, q.v. Crespi also wrote sketches and stories (e.g., Fantasia di Natale (Christmas fantasy) in La Voce del Popolo (Voice of the People), December 25, 1915) and in 1900 gave life to the anarchist review La Protesta Umana (Human Protest) with Enrico Travaglio, and then Giuseppe Ciancabilla (q.v.). He also composed an anti-fascist tract, Fascismo: masnadieri antichi e moderni in 1943 in San Francisco. Among the other newspapers he founded or oversaw was Era Democratica (Democratic Age). In 1916, he attacked the “reactionary insanity” of Tom Mooney’s prosecution and trial for a bombing during San Francisco Preparedness Day. His pieces were printed in various newspapers throughout Italian America. In particular, in the last phase of his life, he collaborated on a series for the socialist La Parola del Popolo. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cesare Crespi Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tipografia Internazionale Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 21 x 15cm; 66 p. Language A language of the resource Italian 1901-1910 anarchist Cesare Crespi communist Protesta umana reporting San Francisco Voce del Popolo