Puffs of fumata bianca or white smoke wisped through the summer’s blue sky in Rome. Yet the concave was not in session at the Vatican. There was no new Pope to select. Benedict XVI remains on the rock that is Saint Peter’s Basilica even if he is currently caught in a hard place, as the corvi scandal – so-called ‘crows’ leaking a series of sensitive documents alleging corruption and cronyism to the press – continues to cast a dark cloud over the Holy See.   No, the fumata bianca was instead seen across the Eternal city, emanating from a plush palazzo in a street off Piazza del Popolo where one of Italy’s most respected law firms is housed. It was there that Zdenek Zeman…