Word: ragusa
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...appreciated your reporting on Dubrovnik in the cover story on "Europe's Secret Capitals," about some of our appealing smaller cities [Aug. 30]. You could have more explicitly mentioned, however, the Italian influence on Dubrovnik in past centuries, especially on its architecture and even its ancient Italian name: Ragusa. Roberto Macchia Livorno, Italy...
...kings of France and three sultans. The documents record virtually no offer of assassination to have been rejected by the Venetian government. From 1456 to 1472, it accepted twenty offers to kill the Sultan Mahomet II, the main antagonist of Venice during that period. In 1514, John of Ragusa offered to poison anybody selected by the government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise be poisoned; this custom is reported to have been general...
...Italy, where family feuds are common, an uncommon corporate vendetta has raged for a decade between E.N.I., the state oil monopoly, and Gulf Oil's Gulf Italia subsidiary. The grudge began after E.N.I, prospected unsuccessfully for oil around Ragusa in Sicily -and Gulf Italia, moving into the same area, brought in 50 wells. This victory by private enterprise so infuriated the late Enrico Mattei, E.N.I.'s leftist president, that he set out to drive Gulf Italia from Sicily. The Italian left, attacking foreign investors in general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head...
...return for E.N.I.'s purchase of 12.5 million tons of crude over a five-year period, Pignatelli offered to let E.N.I, operate and market the output of Gulfs Ragusa field, which had long been the main cause of friction between the two companies. E.N.I, bought the deal. Last week, as he waited for the formal signing, Nicky Pignatelli happily tooled his red Ferrari around Rome, where he likes to drive through the piazzas at high speeds. "Many princes are given them early," he said of the car. "I waited till 40 to get mine. I think...
...told, Mattei's ENI produces only 200,000 tons of oil a year in all of Sicily and Italy, and Italy must spend $510 million to import enough oil for its needs. From its Ragusa field alone Gulf expects to produce 1,600,000 tons this year, eight times as much...