Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
Title
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
Description
In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.
Note, on the title page, that this is the "II Edizione: Dal V all'VIII migliaio," that is, the second edition, from 5,000 to 8,000 copies. Here's why a first book of poetry would have sold so well: the collection of poems had actually been published by her in 1922 in Italy, where she was then living, under the same title, where the Italian state immediately seized and banned all copies, charging her prose with the ability to disrupt public order and incite class hatred.
Errico Malatesta had written the original Preface, dated April 1922, Rome, and that preface is reproduced in this later publication outside of Italy. Malatesta generously calls her "poetess of anarchy," worthy of filling the place left empty by Pietro Gori, who had died in 1911 - given Gori's enormous reputation and popularity, high praise indeed!
On the rear cover, the price to purchase the work was given both in French francs and American dollars. By 1929, as noted, she had moved to the U.S. to be with her lover, Armando Borghi, and had immediately hit the major venues of the anarchist lecture circuit all throughout America, see Richiamo all'anarchia.
Note, on the title page, that this is the "II Edizione: Dal V all'VIII migliaio," that is, the second edition, from 5,000 to 8,000 copies. Here's why a first book of poetry would have sold so well: the collection of poems had actually been published by her in 1922 in Italy, where she was then living, under the same title, where the Italian state immediately seized and banned all copies, charging her prose with the ability to disrupt public order and incite class hatred.
Errico Malatesta had written the original Preface, dated April 1922, Rome, and that preface is reproduced in this later publication outside of Italy. Malatesta generously calls her "poetess of anarchy," worthy of filling the place left empty by Pietro Gori, who had died in 1911 - given Gori's enormous reputation and popularity, high praise indeed!
On the rear cover, the price to purchase the work was given both in French francs and American dollars. By 1929, as noted, she had moved to the U.S. to be with her lover, Armando Borghi, and had immediately hit the major venues of the anarchist lecture circuit all throughout America, see Richiamo all'anarchia.
Creator
Virgilia D'Andrea
Publisher
La Fraternelle
Date
1929
Format
18 x 12cm; 30 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Virgilia D'Andrea, “Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 27, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/72.
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