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IMMIGRANTS According to Anthony Valerio Volumes I & II
This single volume contains 36 stories of the hit series IMMIGRANTS according to Anthony Valerio. There are riveting portraits of famous and not-so-famous men and women who sought refuge in countries not their own. Travel with Valentino, Caruso, Garibaldi. The neighborhood butcher and house painter. Top notch critics, authors and teachers such as Annie Gottlieb, Rose Romano and Edvige Giunta contribute memorable stories and memories. This volume is also illustrated. Meet Meena, refugee from Afghanistan. Orfeo from Italy, Lucky from Romania. The author says: "...the individual pieces contained herein illustrate how in fact and imagination we all derive from one another, learn from one another, share with one another.""Valerio's knowledge of Italian experience and his scholarship are quite evident. He really knows both his history and his subject very well. No less important is the fact that he is a first-rate writer who can really tell a good story."--Bestsellers
Anthony Valerio's SEMMELWEIS
The Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmelweis, who discovered the causes and means of prevention of the pandemic of his day, childbed fever. Called the "Father of Antisepsis," he was largely ignored, placed in an asylum and murdered. He was a man who did good for women."His life was a beneficial example for all mankind." Kurt Vonnegut"To be sure, Semmelweis was a pioneering physician and scientist whose accomplishments should be studied for their contributions to science. But he was also a feminist, and his work should be understood in that vein, also."--Ellen Nerenberg, Hollis Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures, Wesleyan UniversityLooking at and understanding someo...
John Dante's Inferno, a Playboy's Life
The life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dante lived the life of a bachelor's fantasy, going from his humble beginnings in a small Italian village to the Playboy Mansion, where he lived for 26 years with Hugh Hefner and 40 of the most beautiful women in the world. John Dante was a key figure in the first years of the Playboy empire, hiring Bunnies, training Bunny Mothers, and managing the Playboy jet. He befriended some of the most popular and important figures of our time, including Hugh Hefner, whom John paints as a "fascinating, complex man," as well as Shel Silverstein, Lenny Bruce, Linda Lovelace, Don Adams, James Caan and myriad other personalities and stars. A first hand,...
John Dante's Inferno
The Screenplay of the celebrated JOHN Dante's Inferno, about an immigrant's rise to second-in-command int he Playboy Empire. he life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dante lived the life of a bachelor's fantasy, going from his humble beginnings in a small Italian village to the Playboy Mansion, where he lived for 26 years with Hugh Hefner and 40 of the most beautiful women in the world. John Dante was a key figure in the first years of the Playboy empire, hiring Bunnies, training Bunny Mothers, and managing the Playboy jet. He befriended some of the most popular and important figures of our time, including Hugh Hefner, of whom John paints as a "fascinating, complex man," as well as Shel Silverstein, Lenny Bruce, Don Adams, James Caan and myriad other personalities and stars. A first hand, inside look. An important book from the life of the second-in-command.
Prison Terms
An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.
Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night
"Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night is a brief and elegant story that recalls the first meeting of writer Anthony Valerio and one of the leading African-American writers on the way to a PEN writers' conference in Sicily. Toni Cade Bambara and Valerio have more in common with each other than they do with other writers from around the U.S., and so forged a friendhsip that's supportive, interesting and charmingly romantic. Part travelogue, part love story, "One Sicilian Night" is a rewarding read full of Sicilian and African-American flavors"--Fred L. Gardaphe, SUNY Stony Brook.
Dagoes Read
Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphé has regularly reviewed Italian/North American literature in Fra Noi, an Italian/American monthly newspaper based in Chicago. This volume features the best of 'Parole Scritte', his monthly columns. Introduced by an essay from which the collection gets its title, Dagoes Read is the first publication of its kind in the history of Italian/North American literature. It serves as a fine introduction to this literary movement as well as a survey of recent publications by Italian/North Americans. Works reviewed include those by Tony Ardiaone, Dorothy Bryant, Pietro di Donato, John Fante, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Frank Lentricchia, Jay Parini, Diane Raptosh, Gay Talese, Sal LaPuma, and many others.
Anita Garibaldi
It was Anita who taught Garibaldi the guerrilla ways of the gauchos, and they lived as man and wife through a series of adventure and wars. Returning to Italy in 1848 to fight for a united republican Italy, as revolution swept throughout Europe, Anita and Garibaldi were tragically separated by her untimely death the following year. Garibaldi went on to ultimate fame as the father of modern Italy - while Anita's story drifted into the mists of legend.
