A sparkling history of Italy from the post-war to the present by renowned historian John Foot
John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian at the University of Bristol. His publications include Milan Since the Miracle, Calcio, Italy’s Divided Memory, Pedalare! Pedalare!, Modern Italy and The Man Who Closed the Asylums. He spent twenty years in Milan in the 1980s and 1990s and now lives in Bristol.
It’s an astonishing achievement, and structurally so innovative: a
pointillistic portrait of a complicated country as the title
suggests. It captures the sweep of post-war Italian history but is
so precise and detailed as well. The assembling of great stories,
anecdotes, quotations and characters makes reading it effortless
but also immensely rewarding
*Tobias Jones*
If you read only one sporting book this year, make it Pedalare!
Pedalare! ... Absorbing, compelling and brilliant
*Praise for 'Pedalare! Pedalare!', Evening Standard*
Sparkling ... alive with terrific characters ... The key to
[Foot's] success lies with the larger-than-life characters who
people these pages
*Praise for 'Pedalare! Pedalare!', Spectator*
The first general account in English of the second biking culture
... As this year's Giro d'Italia hopefuls head out over a dramatic
parcours, the ghosts Foot evokes will stir once more
*Praise for 'Pedalare! Pedalare!', Independent on Sunday*
More than just a pacy account of races and rivalries, this erudite
and absorbing history of Italian cycling over the past century
situates the sport in war, scandal and politics
*Praise for 'Pedalare! Pedalare!', Daily Telegraph*
This story of Italy's national sport - cycling - is related in this
sparkling history, featuring a cast of eccentric characters
*Praise for 'Pedalare! Pedalare!', Observer*
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