标题: World's Oldest, Continuously Running Bank Stumbles [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-24-2013 12:16 标题: World's Oldest, Continuously Running Bank Stumbles Jack Ewing and Gaia Pianigiani, Patron of Siena Stumbles; 21st-century finance undoes Monte dei Paschi oldest operating bank. New York Times, Feb 23, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/2 ... aschi-stumbles.html
My comment:
(a) I read mainly the first five paragraphs to get to know the bank. Its trouble is discussed later in the report.
(b) Regarding the female given name Gaia.
(c) Palazzo Salimbeni http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Salimbeni
(in Siena, Italy; the seat of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank; faces a square with a statue of the local religious figure Sallustio Bandini, dating to 1882)
* Paragraph 3 of the report translates "Palazzo Salimbeni" into "Salimbeni Palace."
* palazzo (noun masculine): "palace, building"
* Salimbeni is an Italian surname. I do not know who the building was named for.
* The NYT report talks about the statue this way: "In the piazza out front stands a statue of Sallustio Bandini, an 18th-century Tuscan economist who was an early advocate of free trade." English Wiki does not have a page for Mr Bandini; only the Italian one has (albeit a short one), which I can not read.
(d) Siena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siena
(a city in Tuscany, Italy; capital of the province of Siena; According to legend, Siena was founded by Senius, son of Remus, who was in turn the brother of Romulus, after whom Rome was named)
(e) Monte dei Paschi di Siena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_dei_Paschi_di_Siena
(the oldest surviving bank in the world and Italy's third largest bank; founded by order of the Magistrature of the Republic of Siena[, a city state,] in 1472)
(f)
* House of Medici http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Medici
(The origin of the name is uncertain, although Medici is the plural of medico * * * meaning, "medical doctor";
* Medici Bank (1397–1494) was founded by Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (c 1360-1429).
* Paragraph 5 of the report mentions the sobrique "Babbo Monte."