{"id":78526,"date":"2020-05-05T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/uncategorized\/gino-bartali-ritratti-di-un-campione-sulla-rivista-pirelli\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:50:35","slug":"gino-bartali-portraits-of-a-champion-in-pirelli-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/stories-from-world-of-pirelli\/gino-bartali-portraits-of-a-champion-in-pirelli-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gino Bartali: <br> Portraits of a Champion in Pirelli Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cyclist <strong>Gino Bartali<\/strong> passed away twenty years ago, on <strong>5 May 2000<\/strong>. He had notched up an endless string of victories, between the 1930s and 1950s, wearing his <strong>Legnano-Pirelli<\/strong> jersey and also with the Italian national team. It would be impossible to retrace the entire career of this cycling champion here, from his debut as a young amateur in 1934 \u2013 he was born in Ponte a Ema in 1914 \u2013 until he retired from racing in 1954. By the end, he had reaped huge international success and, partly due to his historical <strong>rivalry<\/strong> with <strong>Fausto Coppi<\/strong>, he had become a living legend. However, we would like to show you Bartali as he appeared in so many pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/\"><em>Pirelli <\/em>magazine,<\/a> which \u2013 as a periodical of \u201cinformation and technology\u201d \u2013 always devoted ample space to the sports phenomena of its day, with articles by famous writers and journalists like <strong>Orio Vergani<\/strong>. It was indeed Vergani who, as a correspondent of the <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>, wrote an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/archivio-storico\/bookreader\/pubblicazioni-e-riviste\/RivistaPirelli\/1950_4.html#page\/16\/mode\/2up\">How I know Gino and Fausto<\/a>\u201d, published in <em>Pirelli <\/em>magazine no. 4 of 1950. It painted a precise portrait of the two heroes of the time: on the one hand the tenacious Florentine from out of town, with his \u201cstrange, obstinate, furious, almost unruly way of pounding on the pedals\u201d, and on the other the silent, tormented Fausto. Deep down, in this epic clash between Fausto Coppi \u2013 who is compared to Achilles, the \u201cson of a goddess, dismayed by the supernatural gifts received from nature\u201d \u2013 and Gino Bartali, who is imagined as Ulysses, the \u201cson of common mortals, patient and irascible\u201d, the journalist appears to take the side of the man, who \u201clives out his Odyssey with patience and nerves of steel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another great expert on cycling was Giuseppe Ambrosini, the founder, amongst other things, of <em>Guerin Sportivo <\/em>magazine, who in the previous year wrote an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/selezione_antologica\/bartali-e-coppi-il-segreto-della-potenza\/\">Bartali and Coppi: the secret of power<\/a>\u201d, in <em>Pirelli <\/em>magazine no. 3 of 1949, making a meticulous comparison between the two champions. Ambrosini describes Gino Bartali\u2019s \u201cbenevolent generosity\u201d, in perennial contrast to the hypersensitivity of Fausto, \u201cwhose morale is extremely influenced by his physical condition, by his opponent, by everything around him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gino Bartali certainly loved fine food. In 1951, <em>Pirelli <\/em>magazine commissioned Nino Nutrizio, another magnificent scribe, to write a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/archivio-storico\/bookreader\/pubblicazioni-e-riviste\/RivistaPirelli\/1951_1.html#page\/46\/mode\/2up\">new article<\/a> about him: the former apprentice of the bicycle mechanic in Ponte a Ema had now become a hero, captured in a moment of well-deserved rest after the cycling season: \u201cborn tough, old, and hardened, Bartali smoked more than he should have done during the winter, indulging in some abundant dishes, and he didn\u2019t disdain a dance or even two with his young wife, whom he loved so dearly.\u201d These are portraits of a champion, revealing all his humanity, in both sport and life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cyclist Gino Bartali passed away twenty years ago, on 5 May 2000. He had notched up an endless string of victories, between the 1930s and 1950s, wearing his Legnano-Pirelli jersey and also with the Italian national team. It would be impossible to retrace the entire career of this cycling champion here, from his debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":77412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,68],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-78526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-stories-from-world-of-pirelli","tag-sport-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gino Bartali:  Portraits of a Champion in Pirelli Magazine - Fondazione Pirelli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/stories-from-world-of-pirelli\/gino-bartali-portraits-of-a-champion-in-pirelli-magazine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gino Bartali:  Portraits of a Champion in Pirelli Magazine - Fondazione Pirelli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The cyclist Gino Bartali passed away twenty years ago, on 5 May 2000. 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