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...Berlusconi family holding company, bought shares in several banks and raised its stake in the Spanish network, Telecinco, to 52% from 40%. In early February, the Prime Minister's oldest daughter, Marina - a vice president of Fininvest - was named boss at Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing house. Opposition leader Francesco Rutelli last week cited what he says is another glaring conflict: a Feb. 11 lunch Berlusconi had with Rupert Murdoch in the midst of the Australian tycoon's bid to expand his Italian cable TV holdings. Rutelli smells a backroom deal and vowed to begin a parliamentary battle to force...
...Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight in these because of his proto-scientific, alchemical interests; he was fascinated, like someone seeing pictures in the fire or Leonardo free-associating about forms made by accidental damp on walls, by how the grain of the stone suggested further pictures within...
Behind one Milan warehouse's steel doors is the full-scale mock-up of a room that will serve as the template for the first hotel to bear the Bulgari brand name. Scheduled to open in Milan in January 2004, the hotel represents a gamble for CEO Francesco Trapani, but he's trying to be cool about it. "If it does well, it's another good hotel," he says. "If it does poorly, it's the end of the story. If it does particularly well, then it can change both our industries." When Bulgari announced two years ago that...
...Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight in these because of his proto-scientific, alchemical interests; he was fascinated, like someone seeing pictures in the fire or Leonardo free-associating about forms made by accidental damp on walls, by how the grain of the stone suggested further pictures within...
Italy, once looked down upon for turning out cheap table wine that didn't travel well, has been quicker to catch on to the changes in the wine industry by improving quality and learning how to sell overseas. Says Francesco Trimani, owner of Trimani, Rome's oldest wine store: "Before, big wine producers bought grapes from small vintners. Now they are acquiring vineyards so they can control the quality of production from the start...