To mention Enzo Ferrari's name means to speak of fifty years of automotive and competition history. But who truly is this Italian born in 1898, who dreamed of becoming - in the following order -an operetta tenor, journalist and a driver, and who became the most celebrated constructor of racing cars in the world. Who is this Ferrari, this man feared for his outbursts, capable of the most sincere sorrows and the most burning passions, of the most clamorous rages and the subtlest of diplomacy? Who is this silver-haired Old Man, alone and indefatigable, to whom many still turn in his factory at Maranello, as if on a pilgrimage? Gino Rancati, among one of the few to enjoy his esteem and friendship, traces in this book the first full-length portrait of the Commendatore, reviewing the entire public and personal activity with a great wealth of dates, information, unedited comments: from the first experiences as a test driver to the beginnings of the Scuderia Ferrari; from the tragic death of his first son Dino to the agreement with Fiat; from the tragic 1957 Mille Miglia to today. Thus, not only a re-evocation rich in interest is born - the epoch of road racing and of the first circuits, Nuvolari and Varzi, Ascari, Indianapolis... - but also an image often secret, and above all profoundly real, of a protagonist of our time.