‘I’m No Vampire,’ Official Says ‘Taking part in a live Internet chat Tuesday, Treasury Minister Vincenzo Visco responded to an
online participant who said he looked like the legendary blood-sucking Count Dracula.

The comparison may have been prompted by Visco’s sunken eyes and teeth-baring grimace,
but the minister rebuffed it.

“There’s not that much in common,” he wrote. “Dracula was a count, I am a modest
bourgeois. He lived in a castle, I live in an apartment.

“The only thing in common may be the eyes, but Dracula’s were a sign of the times, mine
are the result of 12 to 14 hours work a day,” he quipped.’