Zarathustra. New York, 15 May 1925 - 15 June 1926.

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Zarathustra. New York, 15 May 1925 - 15 June 1926.

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A monthly magazine edited by Ernesto Valentini. Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American collecting: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however, there is no trace in bibliographies or archives." The collection contains issues of that magazine.

Valentini was a journalist at L'Araldo Italiano, and an attorney trained in Italy as well. His most famous individual work is perhaps Il ricatto: Eccola, la giustizia! Rivelazioni e Documenti [Blackmail: Behold Justice: Revelations and Documents], Torino: 1924, based on a famous trial whose defendants were said to belong to the Black Hand, but at least two of the three of whom, including Brunori, Valentini believed to be innocent. Durante calls the work a "curious pastiche mixing passages of narrative and trial documents, chronicles, and digressions." A fine review that summarizes the work in perhaps a fairer way may be found in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 16, Issue 3 (1926) by Robert Ferrari.

Valentini's standing in the larger American scene is impressive: he is one of only two Italians who appears on a distinguished short list in the 1950's (one that included Norman Thomas, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Dubois, Clarence Darrow and Felix Frankfurter) as members of the International Committee for Political Prisoners, revealed during proceedings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (See its Investigation, Vol. 2, p. 2897). 

An excerpt from Valentini's Brunori's Fortune, which appears to be from Il Ricatto, is in Durante's Italoamericana. In that same period, Valentini contributed frequently to Carlo Tresca's Il Martello.

The collection includes:

Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 1 - 15 Maggio [May] 1925
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 2 - 15 Agosto [August] 1925
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 3 - 15 Settembre [September] 1925
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 4 - 15 Ottobre [October] 1925
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 5 - 15 Novembre [November] 1925
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 6 - 15 Decembre [December] 1925

Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 7 - 15 Gennaio [January] 1926
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 8 - 15 Febbraio [February] 1926
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 9 - 15 Marzo [March] 1926
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 11 - 15 Maggio [May] 1926
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 12 - 15 Giugno [June] 1926

Creator

Ernesto Valentini

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Date

15 May 1925 - 15 June 1926

Language

Italian

Citation

Ernesto Valentini , “Zarathustra. New York, 15 May 1925 - 15 June 1926.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/82.

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