Topgear - BBC, an Italian-made Alfa favourite <br />instead of cool German-engineered cabriolets <br />even if handles fall off the temperamental <br />Alfa and the car won’t stop <br /> <br />For sheer passion and driving exhilaration <br />even as it falls apart - reminding of Guareschi’s <br />tale, a passionate mechanic, Peppone, down- <br />trodden in WW II by a nasty Lieutenant <br /> <br />now a struggling salesman with broken-down <br />car, needing Peppone’s help - offering a chance <br />for revenge, but Peppone’s love for all things <br />mechanical had him restore the car for free <br /> <br />An emotional decision by the fiery Italian <br />temperament, story forever embedded in my <br />mind, I LOVE the Italian spirit symbolized <br />in Grand Prix Ferrari’s exploits through history <br /> <br />Manifest in opera, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly <br />sobbing over her little boy before she dies, Verdi’s <br />tragic Aida and desperate La Traviata - enchanting <br />Italian temperament illustrated by Alfa’s infamy <br /> <br />bewitching my mind…<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bewitching-my-mind-rev-4-5-2009/
