La Verginita Stagnante
- Buenos Aires: Edizioni di, 1930
Buenos Aires: Edizioni di, 1930. Very Good+. Buenos Aires: Edizioni di "Anarchia," 1930. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm); publisher's pictorial staple bound wrappers; [16]pp. Small tear at spine edge along lower staple, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else a Very Good or better copy. The first (and only) volume in the series "La Lotta Contro i Pregiudizi."
Rare pamphlet from the wide-ranging anarchist Italian diaspora of the first half of the 20th century. The author opens her essay opining that seemingly all has already been written on romantic love by the male and female authors of hundreds of novels and treatises on the subject.
However, Clare notes that rarely has a single woman put pen to paper on the subject because of the underlying belief that a woman who has never known the romantic love of a man or the pangs of motherhood has "completely withdrawn from the purposes of her existence." To this assertion Clare responds: "I say that the life of that woman has been nothing but a torturing extravagance, a life of moral short-sightedness, a state of mental deviation" (our translation).
Just four copies in OCLC as of May, 2025, at U. Miami, Northwestern, U. Michigan, and the IIHS. We find no other works published under this imprint.
Rare pamphlet from the wide-ranging anarchist Italian diaspora of the first half of the 20th century. The author opens her essay opining that seemingly all has already been written on romantic love by the male and female authors of hundreds of novels and treatises on the subject.
However, Clare notes that rarely has a single woman put pen to paper on the subject because of the underlying belief that a woman who has never known the romantic love of a man or the pangs of motherhood has "completely withdrawn from the purposes of her existence." To this assertion Clare responds: "I say that the life of that woman has been nothing but a torturing extravagance, a life of moral short-sightedness, a state of mental deviation" (our translation).
Just four copies in OCLC as of May, 2025, at U. Miami, Northwestern, U. Michigan, and the IIHS. We find no other works published under this imprint.