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An early Italian writer on motoring, best known for explaining how the automobile worked at a time when the technology was still new and rapidly changing.

by Alamanno De Maria
Little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm. Reliable catalog sources such as Project Gutenberg identify Alamanno De Maria as the author of La vettura automobile: sue parti - suo funzionamento, a practical Italian work on the mechanics and operation of the automobile.
That surviving work suggests a clear, educational style aimed at readers who wanted to understand a modern machine rather than simply admire it. Today, De Maria is remembered less as a widely documented literary figure than as a useful early voice in popular technical writing about the rise of the automobile.