Indeed, without the studio, the cat suits and hair-metal guitar solos of The Darkness may never have made it into the public eye, with the band's rock sound perfected at the complex.
It's expensive at a time when there's no money to spare, it's complex at a time when politicians need to keep an eye on other things, it can be got very wrong at a time you really can't afford to make mistakes.
True, Italian governments have proved adept over the years at finding ways to tap the country's substantial wealth to service its eye-popping levels of sovereign debt, but this has been largely achieved by introducing ever higher and more complex taxes that only encourage tax evasion while simultaneously sucking the life out of the economy.