Preview presentation of Italians "a flag with stars and stripes"

The new book on the Italians of America by Giovanni Pellerito and Peter Zullo.
6:30 pm – Sept 5th 2013 – Italian American Museum – Little Italy, New York City

On 5th September, at 18.30 at the headquarters of the Italian American Museum, Grand Street, in the heart of Little Italy, in the southern part of Manhattan, the book of Giovanni Pellerito and Peter Zullo, dedicated to the Italian living in New York, will be premiered on.

Italians “a flag with stars and stripes” wants to tell Little Italy through the eyes looks the stories and colors of Italians living the present Little Italy.
It does this through the sensitivity of the two authors Giovanni Pellerito and Peter Zullo.

Giovanni Pellerito an expert on strategic communications, founder and editor of Benvenuta Italia, has mapped how much Italian is today in a cosmopolitan metropolis like New York, by means of the curious and refined eye of Peter Zullo.

A succession of passion, emotions, moods and ways of doing thinks that still give meaning to a little more, Little Italy.

The book features a preface of the Founder and President of the Italian American Museum in Little Italy, Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, who synthesized the work of the two authors with these words:

“It has been said of Italians and America that they found it, named it and build it, but more then they believed in it, not only in America as a land with great opportunity but as a place were they could be free to be the creative talented dedicated people they are. After all, it is in their DNA.”

Giovanni Pellerito and Peter Zullo have captured their spirit of devotion to quality of life through words and pictures which make the Italian American Story come alive.

Giovanni Pellerito
46 years old, graduate in Political Sciences, an institutional and international relations manager, an expert on strategic communications, Giovanni Pellerito is the majority holder and the CEO of GPHolding Comunicazione Ltd.
In 2000, he was the publisher and the director of Top Finance, an online financial journal, with news and thorough examinations of economics and international finance. On Top Finance he wrote some insights that received great appreciation from the financial community.
“The New Economy or the death of Capitalism” (April, 2000)
“Journey into the cybernethics finance” (October, 2000)
In 2005, he published Svolta a Sud Focus Mezzogiorno, (Turning southward, focus on Mezzogiorno) a focus on macro-economic data of Southern Italy, on behalf of the Italian Minister of Development and Territorial Cohesion
In 2007, he received the MEDIABLE Award as the best national institutional online communicator.
In 2010, he founded BENVENUTA ITALIA, a quarterly magazine in Italian and English language, dedicated to the great Italian excellence in the world; it is considered as one of the most successful magazines of Italy brand management sector.
Since 2012 he is the responsible for the communication about Master’s degrees at the University of Palermo.

Peter Zullo
Born in 1973 in Bologna, he considers himself a New Yorker by adoption. Photographer for nearly 20 years, he focuses primarily on travel and social photography. He loves the cities and he is always looking for those unique and special moments where all the elements of the scene seem to be in their proper place. He collaborates with various magazines and web portals. He is the author of the ebook “Photography in New York”