Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.

Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.

This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia italiana-inglese, q.v.

Included is a history of the U.S., discussions on religion, politics, commerce and education, and a section on social class. Pecorini was editor of the newspaper Il Cittadino in New York for some time, and encouraged the integration between Italian Americans and the rest of the country.

In 1910 he founded the unsuccessful and short-lived Italian American Civic League in an attempt to do so.

He also denounced the mainstream Italian American newspaper, Il Progresso Italo-Americano, because its main goal, as he saw it, was to keep all Italians in the United States out of touch with the laws, news, and general activities of the country in which they lived.

Alberto Pecorini

Fratelli Treves, Ed.

1909

18.5 x 13cm; 448 p.

Italian