I am intolerant of the Italian disdain for the urban environment, and the inability to value, care for and maintain its enormous cultural patrimony.
The 2009 Constitution, for example, states that "protected areas" form "part of the natural and cultural patrimony of the country", but also perform "economic functions for sustainable development".
In places they regard as part of their patrimony, ordinary Protestants now encounter Catholics in Gaelic football shirts.
He is working hard to expand his family patrimony, particularly in China, where wine-drinking is booming, but also in America.
Radical movements denounced Bolivia's leaders for handing its natural patrimony to predatory foreigners.
Peru is only the third country to have its own list, after Afghanistan and Iraq.Blanca Alva, the INC official in charge of defending the national patrimony, says that even worse than the loss of an individual piece is the destruction of an entire site to get just one gold object.
The Cadburys retreated from direct management of their chocolate empire and progressively diluted their family control, so when Kraft, a giant American food company, made a hostile bid for the company in 2010, all they could do was protest.Some families seize their patrimony back from professional managers.
Hawks still worry that Germany is scheming, perhaps to bring Russia into a joint security body with the European Union, but most people are just glad to see any progress.Germany is also working on a deal between Macedonia and Greece (which claims both names as Hellenic patrimony).
A new state agency, Patrimonio dello Stato, was set up to value Italy's cultural patrimony and to decide what could be sold, leased or even securitised.To calm his critics, Mr Berlusconi has promised not to touch treasures that are part of Italy's national identity, such as the Colosseum, the leaning tower of Pisa or indeed the Uffizi.
"The Italian state simply doesn't have sufficient resources to manage its cultural patrimony," says Giuliano Urbani, the minister for culture.All European governments will eventually have to follow suit, by entering into some form of partnership with the private sector to run their museums.
He dismisses the music spawned by the track as "plagiarism" and "bullshit", considering it another chapter in the plundering of African-American cultural patrimony.
