legs appearing further away from the Adriatic. In other parts of Veneto, polenta is the primary starch. Beans, Peas and other legumes are seen in these areas with pasta e fagioli (beans and pasta) and risi e bisi (rice and A dish of risotto peas). Veneto features heavy dishes using exotic spices and sauces. Ingredients such as stockfish or simple marinated anchovies are found here as well. Less fish and more meat is eaten away from the coast. Sausages such as sopressata and garlic salami are common. High quality vegetables are prized, such as red radicchio from Treviso and asparagus from Bassano del Grappa. The most notable dish of Veneto is fegato alla Veneziana, thinly-sliced liver sauteed with onions. Squid and cuttlefish are common ingredients, as is squid ink, called nero di seppia. Lombardy
at all assuming that Columbus would have referred to Cuba in that way or in any parallel or analogous way. Or suppose you and I are among the few people who know that our acquaintance Jacques is in fact the notorious jewel thief who has been ter- rorizing Paris' wealthy set, called "Le Chat" in the popular press and by the gendarmes. We read in the newspaper after a particularly daring but flawed robbery that police believe "Le Chat dropped the fistful of anchovies as he or she ran." We say to each other, "The police think Jacques dropped the anchovies as he ran." So it seems undeniable that there are transparent positions inside belief sentences, in which the referring expression does just refer to its bearer, without any further suggestion about the way in which the subject of the belief sentence would have represented the bearer. Singular terms can be and are often understood transparently. We might even say: