5m to have the Spanish Steps cleaned and renovated, chairman Paolo Bulgari came under fire for referring to tourists – who use the steps as a public seating area – as "barbarians".
He acquired a stake worth 25 per cent, prompting Vanke's chairman to label Baoneng "barbarians".
Vanke chairman Wang Shi had previously branded the private owners of Baoneng "barbarians", warning that a takeover by them would wreck Vanke's corporate culture.
The Tartar chieftain's hunting-fires glimmered along Wolf Mountain, And heights and rivers were cold and bleak there at the outer border; But soon the barbarians' horses were plunging through wind and rain.
Had his thoughts ventured to fly with the ships of the barbarians, to their homes in far distant England?