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"Little Peter" is an English equivalent of the Italian name Perini. The surname tracks its origins back as one of the diminutives -- whose equivalents in English include "Pete" or "Petey" -- for the masculine proper name Pietro ("Peter"). The pronunciation will be "pey-REE-nee" in Pisan Italian.

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