† Another tactic, as Umberto Eco noted, was to ‘use his own formidable mass media apparatus to accuse the mass media of persecuting him’.14
‡ The Communist Party, for instance, metamorphosed successively into the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS), the Democratici della Sinistra (DS) and the Partito Democratico (PD).
§ Pesto is not in fact a purely Genoese sauce. While the basil and the olive oil may come from Liguria, the cheese it contains is parmesan from Emilia-Romagna and pecorino usually from Lazio.