Italoamericana

Edited by Francesco Durante, General Editor Robert Viscusi, Volume editor Anthony Julian Tamburri, with James J. Periconi

The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus Introduction Carlo Barsotti To the Readers Ferdinando Fontana Shine? ... Shine? Luigi Roversi For Humanity Rocco Corresca Biography of a Bootblack Gaetano Conte Little Italy Gino Carlo Speranza How It Feels to Represent a Problem Alberto Pecorini The Children of Emigrants Alberto Tarchiani Neither Foreigners nor Americans Al Capone Public Service Is My Motto Part II. Colonial Reports Introduction Luigi Donato Ventura Peppino Fanny Vanzi-Mussini The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 Adolfo Rossi The Five Points Giuseppe Antonio Cadicamo To Giuseppe Giacosa Edoardo Michelangeli Two Stories Bernardino Ciambelli A Story, Sketches, and a Play Camillo Cianfarra An Emigrant's Diary Thomas Fragale Two Poems Antonio Calitri Two Poems Angelo Rosati Three Poems Calicchiu Pucciu The Poor Woman Paolo Pallavicini The Little Madonna of the Italians Italo Stanco Bohemian and Detective Ernesto Valentini Brunori's Fortune Eugenio Camillo Branchi Hold Up! Dora Colonna The Two Girlfriends Caterina Maria Avella The Flapper Severina Magni Seven Poems Antonio Marinoni The Hula Hula Flag Corrado Altavilla The Verdict Part III. On Stage (and Off) Introduction Francesco Ricciardi The Interrogation of Pulcinella Riccardo Cordiferro Four Poems and a Dramatic Play Eduardo Migliaccio Five Poems Tony Ferrazzano Three Poems Giovanni De Rosalia Nofrio on the Telephone Armando Cennerazzo Child Abductors, or The Black Hand Gino Calza Two Poems Michele Pane The Americanized Calabrian Achille Almerini Dante's Colony Pasquale Seneca The Pichinicco Vincenzo Campora Spaghetti House Alfredo Borgianini Two Poems Rodolfo Valentino Six Poems Silvio Picchianti Domestic Court Ario Flamma Leaves in the Whirlwind Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists Introduction Giuseppe Ciancabilla The First of May Simplicio Righi Two Poems Luigi Galleani Methods of the Socialist Struggle Umberto Postiglione An Editorial and a Dramatic Play Ludovico M. Caminita A Letter and a Story Giuseppe Bertelli Six Poems Alberico Molinari Brief Discourses Arturo Giovannitti Four Poems Efrem Bartoletti Four Poems Vincenzo Vacirca The Fire Onorio RuotoloIn Union Square Park Agostino De Biasi Fascism in America Rosario Ingargiola The Lighthouse Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni To Mussolini, the Immortal Rosario Di Vita Two Poems 000 Umberto Liberatore Two Poems Armando Borghi The Failed Ambush Virgilia D'Andrea Remembering Michele Schirru Raffaele Schiavina What to Do? Carlo Tresca Two Articles Ezio Taddei Once Again Tresca Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics Introduction Lisi Cecilia Cipriani A Story and a Poem Angelo Patri A Schoolmaster of the Great City Silvio VillaViola Constantine PanunzioIn an Immigrant Community Emanuel Carnevali The Day of Summer Pascal D'Angelo Son of Italy Francesco Ventresca Incipit Vita Nova Louis Forgione The Torture of the Soul Giuseppe Cautela Miracle Edward Corsi A Picture of 1907 Notes Bibliography Index