Enrico Mentana

Enrico Mentana (Milan, Italy, 15 January 1955) is an Italian journalist and from 15 June 2010 Director of TG LA7.

Biography

Enrico Mentana was born in Milan on 15 January 1955, eldest son of the Calabrian sportswriter Franco Mentana and Lellat. Raised in the Giambellino district of Milan, he attended Classical High School "Alessandro Manzoni", before joining the group anarchist Libertarian Socialist Movement and then the Italian Socialist Party.

He became an editor of Young Left, the official organ of the Federation of Young Socialists, of which he has been vice-president from 1977 to 1979. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Milan, but he never graduated. He become a professional journalist on 2nd February 1982. In 2002 he married the model and actress Michela Rocco di Torrepadula his friend's Diego Della Valle estate in the Marche. With Michela, Enrico had two kids, Giulio and Vittoria, while Stephen and Alice have been born from previous relationships. The marriage ended in 2013.

Mentana

Mentana is a town and comune, former bishopric and presant Latin Catholic titular see in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy. It is located 29 kilometres (18 mi) north-east of Rome and has a population of about 21,000.

History

Mentana's name in ancient times was Nomentum, to which the Via Nomentana led from Rome. According to Livy, the town was part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome during the reign of Rome's king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. Nomentum was one of a number of towns captured by Tarquinius.

It was a Latin town, but was considered by some to be Sabine, and, like Fidenae and Ficulea, was excluded from the first region by Augustus, who made the Anio river its northern boundary. The city was part of the League defeated by Rome in the Battle of Lake Regillus, and was captured definitively in 338 BCE.

Subsequently Nomentum received the civitas sine suffragio; in its municipal constitution the chief magistrate even in imperial times bore the title of dictator. Pliny and Martial often praise the fertility of its neighbourhood.