It is a fairy tale with a happy ending, that of an enlightened entrepreneur who after the war converted his airplane factory and invents a means of transport to go to work, that everyone can use, the workers, the doctors, the priests and the women.” We all have driven a Vespa, but few know the story of how she was born, thanks to the tenacity of a Enrico Piaggio and engineer Corradino D’ascanio , in the factory in Pontedera.
Enrico Piaggio – An Italian dream of Umberto Marino , the tv movie aired Tuesday, November 12, Rai 1, with Alessio Boni in the role of the industrial, reconstructs the figure of the Piaggio, man, intelligent and charming, but save the factory inherited from his father Rinaldo, reduced to rubble in 1945, and to save the 12,000 workers, it starts with a brilliant idea.