THE silver-haired man brushes down his elegant suit and gingerly accepts a pair of head phones.
He raises an eyebrow when he is addressed sonorously as 'signore' when asked to take his seat. "In some senses in Italian signore can mean lord," says his interpreter, by way of explanation of Marcello Lippi's slight but perceptible reaction.
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