Giulio Alfieri

Giulio Alfieri (10 July 1924 – 20 March 2002) was an Italian automobile engineer, affiliated with Maserati in Modena, Italy since 1953, where he was central to the development of racing and production cars in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Alfieri was born in Parma. After graduating from the Politecnico of Milan, he first worked on steam turbines for the shipping industry Cantieri Navali of Tirreno, in Genoa, before joining the automaker Innocenti in 1949. Employed in September 1953 by Adolfo Orsi, Alfieri joined the technical staff of Maserati alongside Gioacchino Colombo, Vittorio Bellentani and two others.