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[Parkesi]

Accoding to the Italian magazine Autosprint the famous author Cesare de Agostini (80) passed away yesterday.

He wrote numberless books: Nuvolari, Villeneuve, Regazzoni, Cisitalia, Auto Union, Ferrari, Maria de Filippis, Don Mantovani, Borsari, Munari.

The English versions did not do him justice, very often they were translated in a very "mediterranean way"...

A true old school enthusiast!  

[Tim Murray]

I’m very sorry to read this. I bought Le Leggendarie Auto Union, the book he wrote with Gianni Cancellieri, when it first came out in 1979 as it was the first decent book on AU I’d come across. I then had to take Italian classes to find out what the text meant, but it was worth it. RIP.

[guiporsche]

Resta in pace.

Very, very sad news. One of the stalwarts of the Italian motorsports history scene, a legendary name. As with Tim, my first book of his was Le Leggendarie Auto Union, which he wrote with another myth (Cancellieri) and that even after all these years remains a must-read. 

[GMiranda]

I read some of his reports on old Autosprints I have, I knew him as a great journalist and writer.

[Arjan de Roos]

"........

He wrote numberless books: Nuvolari, Villeneuve, Regazzoni, Cisitalia, Auto Union, Ferrari, Maria de Filippis, Don Mantovani, Borsari, Munari.

....."

 

...Bandini, Castellotti, Bandini, Antonio e Alberto Ascari, Baracca, Musso, Farina, Marzotto, Villoresi...."

 

Grazie!!

Edited by Arjan de Roos, 25 January 2022 - 15:32.

[ReWind]

Almost to the day one year after his compatriot of the same age (class of 1941), Luigi Orsini.

 

[Doug Nye]

Sad news, indeed...

 

DCN

[Nanni Dietrich]

Very sad news.

A real legend in (not only) Italian motor racing journalism. In his twenties Cesare De Agostini tried his hands as a racing driver (unsuccessfully) and many years later he recounted his sad racing exploits with masterful self-irony in the book "Se questo è correre" ("if this could be racing").