Mansell was beaten more often than not during his years at Lotus by team-mate Elio de Angelis, a talented driver and charming man from a wealthy Roman background, and a very different personality from Mansell.
Compared, inevitably, to both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, Mr Rutelli comes from a well-to-do Roman background, has charm, brains, a nice family and a tough wife who is a well-known journalist.Now a youthful 46, he entered parliament in 1983, for the Radicals, a small party of the centre-left.
Born in the Limburg town of Venlo in 1963, he came from a Roman Catholic background but has since said he is not religious.
The emperors of the 5th century were often controlled by military strongmen such as Stilicho (d. 408), Aspar (d. 471), Ricimer (d. 472), or Gundobad (d. 516), who were partly or fully of non-Roman background.
His father was of German-Jewish descent, his mother, Theresa, a Roman Catholic of Hungarian background, who converted to Christian Science.
She is from an Irish Roman Catholic background; and she is an atheist.
The altarpiece, dated 1485, contains further evidence of Ghirlandaio's interest in Classical antiquity, for it shows the Adoration of the Shepherds with a Roman triumphal arch in the background and a Roman sarcophagus in place of the traditional manger.
That prospect worried those who regard the museum's Judaica collection as its principal focus, and who were wondering whether Ms. Gould — raised in an interfaith home, with a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother — had the background to deal with these materials.
He was born into a working class Roman Catholic background in Steventon, Ayrshire, and is married with two teenage sons.
She came from a modest background and was brought up a Roman Catholic in Acton, west London.
