Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . nded to produce individual men unsurpassed in personalattainments, has at the same time made Italian history inter-esting solely on account of its diversity and unstudied exceptfor the sake of its great men. Pushing an Investigation back to the early race settle-ments in Italy, we find two main aboriginal elements, theCelts mixed with low Germanic in the north and the Pelas-gian, exactly the same race stock as peopled early Greece,in central and south Italy. The Pelasgians lived on theseacoast of Asia Minor and were an ad
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . nded to produce individual men unsurpassed in personalattainments, has at the same time made Italian history inter-esting solely on account of its diversity and unstudied exceptfor the sake of its great men. Pushing an Investigation back to the early race settle-ments in Italy, we find two main aboriginal elements, theCelts mixed with low Germanic in the north and the Pelas-gian, exactly the same race stock as peopled early Greece,in central and south Italy. The Pelasgians lived on theseacoast of Asia Minor and were an adventurous, sea-faring,colonizing folk. They invented what in its modified form isnow our modern alphabet and had perfected, even in thoseearly days, certain industrial arts such as weaving, dying ofcloth, and painting. These Pelasgians, combined with theSabines, Umbrians, and Germanic tribes, and later whatseems to have been a Gothic or Norse tribe, the Etruscan, 1 Quoted from Cottrell by J. W. Donaldson in A Critical Study•/ Latin Language. ITALIAN LIFE IN ITALY 55. ITALY Emigrations^United States*/Provinces in. igio KEY: VoV^^^^^l
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