Cult Of Vespa Author:Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Maurizio Bettini, Tommaso Fanfani, Francois Burkhardt, Francesca Picchi, Sebastiano Vassalli, Francesco Alberoni, Marino Livolsi, Gilberto Filippetti, Alessandro Baricco, Antonio Tabucchi, Lina Wertmuller Here is the entertaining history about the most successful 'cult-scooter' Vespa in its 50th anniversary. Not many products reach the goal of a fifty-year-life-span. The 50 years of Vespa are even more striking if one considers the condition and the period in which it came to existence. Many post-war inventions were forgotten when income rose and... more » life standard improved. But Vespa instead, developed from a utility vehicle, into an international success, a 'cult-object', which has given rise to the creation of associations and collector's guilds world-wide. Text by Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Lina Wertmuller, Fran¨ois Burkhardt, Maurizio Bertini, and many other celebrities. English/Italian« less