Viva Bartali! by Damian Watford Davies Faber and the struggles of cross-cultural

and the struggles of cross-cultural relationships

and cultured friends

Her touch is astonishingly sure

illuminating the remarkable resemblances between ancient Greek thought and the society we grapple with today

acute in its commitment to the truth of lived experience

Viva Bartali! by Damian Watford Davies Faber and the struggles of cross-culturalInspired 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