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LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO

WHAT DO LAMBORGHINI and Ernest Hemingway have in common? Well, while the acclaimed 20th century novelist passed away just as Lamborghini began developing their first car, the 350 GT, he too found his muses in the Spanish bloodsport of the corrida.

Hemingway, an ex-soldier, journalist and adventurist, became enamoured with the sport of bullfighting on a trip to Spain in 1923, and would go on to pen numerous works dedicated to the sport throughout the 1930s. In Death in the Afternoon (essentially a non-fiction guide to the sport), Hemingway

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