Carl Marzani

The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci, a sixty-four-page selection translated and annotated by Carl Marzani, was published by Cameron Associates in New York in 1957. The title page is reproduced in Marzani’s own memoir, which settles a date that secondary sources give variously as 1957, 1958 and 1959. Source: The Education of a Reluctant Radical, {"offset": 135172}

Marzani writes that he takes great pride in being the first to translate Gramsci from Italian into English. Hobsbawm credits Louis Marks’s The Modern Prince (London, 1956) as probably the first selection of Gramsci’s writings in a non-Italian language, a year earlier. The archive reports the conflict rather than resolving it: Marzani is likely first in America, and the plain claim of first-in-English does not survive Hobsbawm. Source: The Education of a Reluctant Radical

Marzani records that his 1957 booklet sparked the interest of John Cammett, then a graduate student, who became the leading American scholar of Gramsci. Source: The Education of a Reluctant Radical