[alfa] Nicola Romeo

["John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean Tessiedog asked if anyone can suggest a good English web site on the history of Nicola Romeo's family, and Ed Lutz seconded the question.
 
It isn't a website, but published hardcopy, and isn't primarily about his family, rather than his relationship to the business, but there is a chapter on Nicola Romeo in Griffith Borgeson's fine book "The Alfa Romeo Tradition. ("Alfa Romeo-I creatori della Leggenda" in the Italian edition.) The chapter (like others in the book) had originally been an article published in "Automobile Quarterly". Anyone who hasn't already read it might find the book (or Borgeson's several Alfa articles in AQ) will worth looking up. It is the most accessible work I know of on the cultural, social, political, and economic (and personal) contexts of the company, rather than simply on the cars and the competition histories. The cars and the races get adulation in many other places, but for those who think as I do that there might be more to Alfa than that, this is a grand place to start.

John H.
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