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If you read only one sporting book this year, make it Pedalare! Pedalare! ... Absorbing, compelling and brilliant Evening Standard Sparkling ... alive with terrific characters ... The key to [Foot's] success lies with the larger-than-life characters who people these pages Spectator The first general account in English of the second biking culture ... As this year's Giro d'Italia hopefuls head out over a dramatic parcours, the ghosts Foot evokes will stir once more Independent on Sunday An expert on sport, but more importantly on Italian culture, history and society, [John Foot] has now turned his eye to cycling ... If you want to understand Italian cycling, read this book ... Fascinating Cycle Sport More than just a pacy account of races and rivalries, this erudite and absorbing history of Italian cycling over the past century situates the sport in war, scandal and politics Daily Telegraph This story of Italy's national sport - cycling - is related in this sparkling history, featuring a cast of eccentric characters Observer

If you read only one sporting book this year, make it Pedalare! Pedalare! ... Absorbing, compelling and brilliant * Evening Standard * Sparkling ... alive with terrific characters ... The key to [Foot's] success lies with the larger-than-life characters who people these pages * Spectator * The first general account in English of the second biking culture ... As this year's Giro d'Italia hopefuls head out over a dramatic parcours, the ghosts Foot evokes will stir once more * Independent on Sunday * An expert on sport, but more importantly on Italian culture, history and society, [John Foot] has now turned his eye to cycling ... If you want to understand Italian cycling, read this book ... Fascinating * Cycle Sport * More than just a pacy account of races and rivalries, this erudite and absorbing history of Italian cycling over the past century situates the sport in war, scandal and politics * Daily Telegraph * This story of Italy's national sport - cycling - is related in this sparkling history, featuring a cast of eccentric characters * Observer *

Praise for 'Calcio' 'The pace never slackens ... a meticulous and knowledgeable guide ... leaves the reader wanting to investigate further' Daily Telegraph 'Foot mixes serious analysis and comic storytelling to bring to life tales of paranoia and intrigue' Scotland in Sunday 'Full of fascinating vignettes' Sunday Times

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John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian, University College London. He has published many books both in Italy and in the UK and lives in London.

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