23 April 1946 is no ordinary date. On that day, a patent filed in Florence changed two-wheeled mobility forever. Beyond technicalities came a pop-culture revolution lead by two minds: Corradino D'Ascanio and Enrico Piaggio.
D'Ascanio imagines something that does not exist; Piaggio realises that the invention can conquer the world. Its name? It was supposed to be "Paperino" (meaning "Donald Duck"), but Piaggio, seeing its shape with its narrow "calf" and unmistakable buzzing noise, chose "Vespa" - the Italian for "wasp".
