Quando c’era la 500. L’Italia e l’auto che tutti guidavano (1957-1975)

Not a technical manual but a picture of a time and its manners: Giovanni Orsini reads the press of the years 1957 to 1975 and makes from it the story of the car almost every Italian family had in the garage – design, presentation, twenty years of production, and with them a mass of small details and anecdotes. The description of the individual versions was contributed by Alessandro Dragone. The back cover singles out one particular day: on Monday 1 July 1957, shortly after nine o'clock, a white Nuova 500 with the trade plate «Roma 244» left the Fiat branch on the Viale Manzoni in the Esquilino district, passed Santa Maria Maggiore, took the Via Agostino Depretis to the Piazza del Viminale and entered the garden of the government palace through a side gate – at the wheel a man of sixty-six in jacket and tie, beside him the workshop foreman in overalls, showing him the way because the driver did not know the streets of the capital. The volume appeared in 2025 from 500 Club Italia Edizioni and was presented on 5 July 2025 at the «Dante Giacosa» museum in Garlenda; it costs 20 euros.