The American Dream Of My Grandfather Camillo Perazzoli

Title: Camillo Perazzoli (The adventurous youngness of my grandfather)

Editor: Anna Rita Perazzoli

Keywords: Letters, Documents during the American Period and the War World I (1907-1919)

Pages: 216

Year: 2016

Typography: Fast Edit - Acquaviva Picena (AP)

Genre: Non Fiction

Language: Italian

This series of letters shows to the reader the life of a teenager with a strong sense of the adventure, love for the life and in particular curiosity.

In August of 1907 he left Ripatransone for New York, not for tourism but for necessity.

He was the ideal candidate of the "American Dream" in his letters there is no trace of his relationship with the New Yorkers due to a low level of English language but in this book there is a postcard of the young subway (it was three years old)

The title of this postcard is "The Brooklyn Subway" and there is a carriage under a tunnel and passengers well dressed looking at the reader, as to witness the novelty.

In my opinion this was his "American Dream" a new culture based on innovation and a positive approach to the future, living in New York meant be always positive, and dense of curiosities, cultures, lifestyles, the beginning of a great multicultural society, a living experience useful for "de-mining" his fear for the diverse.

Camillo during the WWII was the official translator of the US troops and he educated his child with their Ideals: Democracy, Freedom and respect for the others.

In this book there are the certificates of his education and the philosophical prize of his brother Ernesto who studied with profit at the seminary of Ripatransone, he will become a monsignor.

In the second chapter there are the letters written to his future wife Virginia and some Italians friends from New York.

The third chapter is more cruel, because he was injured during an act of war and hospitalized.

A curiosity was written his words of love under the postage stamp, for two reasons to defend their privacy and avoid the military censorship.

At the end there are some very hold photographs of his parents, and others personages.

This Book Can Be Consulted At The Bishop's Library (close to the cathedral) In The Following Days

Tuesdays 3:30 pm to 7:30pm

Thursdays 3:30 pm to 7:30pm

Fridays 3:30 pm to 7:30pm

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