Foxbase Farina

[Dave Monroe]

Giuseppe La Farina (1815-1863) was an influential leader of the
Italian Risorgimento. Minister of Cavour, was highly involved in
Garibaldi's departure for Sicily. Ostensibly sent by Cavour to
dissuade Garibaldi from going, he in fact did little of the sort. A
nationalist at heart, he was believed to be one of the few to whom
Cavour actually revealed his intentions regarding the Sicilian
campaign and eventual unification. The pace of Garibaldi's victories
had worried Cavour, who in early July sent him a proposal of immediate
annexation of Sicily to Piedmont. Garibaldi, however, refused
vehemently to allow such a move until the end of the war. Cavour's
envoy, La Farina, was arrested and expelled from the island. He was
replaced by the more malleable Agostino Depretis, who gained
Garibaldi's trust and was appointed as pro-dictator.

Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina (October 30, 1906 - June 30, 1966),
Italian racing driver, was born in Turin, Italy, a nephew of Giovanni
Battista "Pinin" Farina founder of Carrozzeria Pininfarina, a name
forever associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars
(especially Ferraris).

The last design personally attributed to Battista Farina was the
iconic 1600 Duetto for Alfa Romeo. This was first seen by the public
at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966. He died less than a month
later, on 3 April.

On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book Been
Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña attended a
book-signing at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird.
Later that day, while at a party to celebrate Mimi's 21st birthday,
Fariña saw a guest with a motorcycle and hitched a ride up Carmel
Valley Road east toward Cachagua. At an S-turn - coincidentally, just
above the point on the Carmel River where John Steinbeck set the frog
hunt that the Cannery Row denizens make in the novel of the same name
- the driver lost control. The motorcycle flopped on one side on the
right side of the road, came back to the other side and tore through a
barbed wire fence into a field where there is now a small vineyard.
The driver survived, but Farina was killed instantly.

Ironically, it was in a car crash on July 3, 1966 that Nino Farina
finally lost his life at Chambery in France, whilst driving to
spectate at the 1966 French Grand Prix.

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