A biography of Enzo Ferrari’s youth—the man who became a legend in the world of motorsport. Modena, Italy, 1899. Little Enzo Ferrari peacefully sleeps in his mother’s arms in a mesmerizing atmosphere of an Italian celebration. Suddenly chaos erupts—shouts, a stream of people running: down the street comes an incredible horse-less carriage—the first car in Modena—driven by Alfredo Ferrari, Enzo’s father. And that’s how little Enzo’s passion for cars begins… This book by the famous Italian novelist Enrico Brizzi is a novel about the youth of a man destined to become a legend in the world of motorsport. Through the lens of Enzo Ferrari’s childhood—from his first thrills with car racing to his first romantic experiences—the first volume of the trilogy, “The Start,” reveals the formation of the great ambitions of a little boy from Modena. And all this against the backdrop of dizzying events in early-20th-century Italy: socialist strikes, Mussolini’s revolutionary speeches. Ahead for Enzo and for all of Italy lies a terrible test—the First World War…