Viva Bartali!

by Damian Walford Davies

Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the 1950s, Viva Bartali is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-- 2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), known both as ' Gino the Pious' because of his fervent Catholic faith, and as Ginettaccio (' Gino the Terrible' ), owing to the short shrift he so often gave the Press. Conjuring Bartali at crux moments in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781727082
• ISBN13: 9781781727089
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 72 Pages