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The Painter Michetti, the Artist Escher, the Poet D'Annunzio, Matteotti and the Synclair Affair, Mussolini, Enrico Mattei, the Ancient Roman Poet Ovidius Nasone, Moviemakers Francesco Rosi, Joris Ivens and Tinto Brass, the Entrepeneur Salvatori, the Astronomer De Gasparis, the Warrior Hannibal, Pope Celestine V, King Emmanuele III, General Montgomery, the Seven Sisters.... How are they all connected to this huge Mountain and these small valleys in the Central Apennines in Italy? Revolutionists, oil drillers and explorers, visionaries, artists, politicians, bandits, scientists, bankers, dictators and free-thinkers, this scientifically documented narrative of 7.000 years of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production reveals their fascinating Journey through Space and Time and ever interweaving science and technology, economy and politics and cultural developments surrounding the never ending evolution of ideas and concepts in Earth Sciences.