Title: Lancia and De Virgilio: At The Center
Author: Geoffrey Goldberg
Prefaces: Luigi De Virgilio, Miles C. Collier
Format: Hardcover, 10 ¾” by 11 ½”, 332 pages
Photos: 240 black-and-white and 39 color photographs; 231 illustrations
Footnotes, Index, Bibliography and Appendixes
Retail Price: $99.95/£65.00/€80.00
ISBN-13: 978 1 935007 25-8
To order, call 602-852-9500, (800) 831-1758, or visit www.bullpublishing.com
Review by Nigel Trow
All photos courtesy Geoff Goldberg/David Bull
I met Francesco De Virgilio occasionally during the 1960s and 70s, mostly in Turin, but for the last time at Mugello in 1981, during the Vincenzo Lancia Centenary celebrations that I helped to organize. He was a warm and friendly man of great charm, an engineer, a musician and an easy conversationalist full of fascinating stories about Lancia during the previous 40 years.
Geoff Goldberg’s illuminating book, Lancia and De Virgilio: At The Center, fleshes out those conversations wonderfully, providing an unusually intimate portrait of the man and the company during the last decade of Lancia family ownership. This is the proper stuff of history, which always concerns human activity and its consequences. [Read more…] about Lancia and De Virgilio: At The Center