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This volume retraces, for the first time in a systematic and in-depth manner, the life of Tullo Morgagni (Forlì, 1881 - Verona, 1919). At the dawn of the twentieth century, just eighteen, he arrives in Milan, where he will quickly build a brilliant journalistic career, first in the political newspaper "L'Italia del Popolo", then in the world of the emerging sports press. He became editor-in-chief of "La Gazzetta dello Sport" (1905-1912), then from 1913 founder and director of "Lo Sport Illustrato", finally enlightened guide of the first national magazine entirely dedicated to the human flight industry, "Nel Cielo" (1917). The result of a long archival excavation (in particular in the Tullo Morgagni Fund, preserved in the Municipal Library of Forlì), the reconstruction carried out by the historian Domenico Guzzo recovers unpublished images and forgotten documents to tell the epic adventure of Tullo Morgagni, who at only twenty-eight years already wore the stripes of "father" of the Italian cycling season - having created the opening event, the Giro di Lombardia (1905), the closing one, the Milan - Sanremo (1907), and its central event, the Giro of Italy (1909). An extremely brilliant journey that will be tragically and prematurely interrupted at the age of only 37, in the first major aviation catastrophe in Italian history (the so-called "Verona disaster" of August 2, 1919, in which 17 travelers perished).
23 x 16 cms, softback, 248 pages.
2021
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