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My book
If someone would have predicted that one day I would have written a book, I would have replied: “Impossible!”, because in my school time, Italian literature was not my favourite subject. Today I must admit that the Italian expression: “Never say never” is quite correct and as a matter of fact one day came and I wrote a book. How could that happen?
Sometime ago I happened to see some pictures of the first Italian competition for motorless flight in Asiago in 1924 and those old and primitive machines. The people posing near to them particularly fascinated me and my curiosity further grew once I read an article in an old magazine. The article was describing that competition, the first one of that kind, which was sponsored by the famous sport newspaper called “ La Gazzetta dello Sport”. The location where it took place was Mount Sisemol, on the Asiago plateau and the date was from October 1st till 15th. I think I had all that I needed for starting a detailed investigation.
I went to the public Library in Milano and made copies of all articles published by “La Gazzetta dello Sport” in those two weeks, describing in the finest details all what was happening day by day on the slope of Mount Sisemol. A huge amount of information, much more than I thought! A friend of mine, when he saw the result of my investigation, made a comment: “Wow, you collected enough material to write a book…!” Believe it or not, it was when I decided to write my book and I gave it the title: “Asiago, the Start of Gliding in Italy”.
I collected additional photos of that event and I added some drawings illustrating some peculiar circumstances happening during the meeting and finally, I included the three view drawings of the sailplanes, which took part in the competition. My good friend Patrizia Treves of the Studio Grafico A&P, assembled all my material with great graphic skill and expertise and ended up producing a small masterpiece.
