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Paolo Del Debbio
Paolo Del Debbio (born 13 February 1958) is an Italian journalist, television presenter and politician. He is also a lecturer in ethics and economics at the IULM University of Milan. Biography Paolo Del Debbio was born in Lucca in 1958. He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Urban University. In 1988 Del Debbio began working for Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest group, first as coordinator of the research department and then as assistant to CEO Fedele Confalonieri. At Fininvest, Del Debbio met Gina Nieri, with whom he married and had two daughters: Maddalena and Sara. Working at Fininvest until 1993, he was among the founders of Forza Italia, the liberal-conservative party launched by Berlusconi. Del Debbio wrote the party's political program and was the director of the party's national studies office from 1994 to 1997. In the 1995 Tuscan regional election he was the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one of the Italian's "Città d'arte" (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its very well preserved historic center, where, among other buildings and monuments, are located the Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, which has its origins in the second half of the 1st century A.D. and the Guinigi Tower, a tower that dates from the 1300s. The city is also the birthplace of numerous world-class composers, including Giacomo Puccini, Alfredo Catalani, and Luigi Boccherini. Toponymy By the Romans, Lucca was known as ''Luca''. From more recent and concrete toponymic studies, the name Lucca has references that lead to "sacred wood" (Latin: ''lucus''), "to cut" (Latin: ''lucare'') and "luminous space" (''leuk'', a term used by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Tuscan Regional Election
The Tuscan regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995. For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term. Electoral system Regional elections in Tuscany were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinta Colonna
Quinta may refer to: * Quinta (estate) in Portugal * Quinta (musician), British multi-instrumentalist * In medieval music theory, alternative term for diapente (perfect fifth) * ''Quinta'' (skipper), genus of butterflies * Claudia Quinta, Roman matron * Quintus (vocal music), fifth voice in polyphony * Quinta Brunson, writer and comedian * shorthand for Biblia Hebraica Quinta, standard Hebrew Bible text * Quinta, Cuba an alternative name for La Quinta, Cuba See also * Tropical Cyclone Quinta, a typhoon name used in The Philippines by PAGASA * La Quinta (other) * Quinta da Beloura Quinta da Beloura is an affluent gated community and golf resort located in Linhó, Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The community is known for hosting numerous golf tournaments, tennis opens, and equestrian & dressage events, as well as for be ..., an affluent gated community and golf resort located in Linhó, Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera * Quinta Normal, Chile * Quinta Grande [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattino Cinque
''Mattino cinque'' is an Italian infotainment television program. It airs every morning, from Monday to Friday, on Canale 5 and reruns on Mediaset Plus Mediaset Plus was an Italian entertainment television channel which started broadcasting on 1 December 2008, carrying an entertainment-themed programming produced by Mediaset. It closed on 2 July 2011, and its programs were moved to the digital cha .... It is produced in collaboration with Videonews. References R.T.I. - Mediaset Infotainment Italian television talk shows 2008 Italian television series debuts 2000s Italian television series 2010s Italian television series Canale 5 original programming {{italy-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondo Voi
The term Secondo ''(sg. m.) (Seconda (sg. f.))'' is an umbrella term which has particularly been used in Switzerland. ''Secondo/Seconda'' is the Italian word for ''second'' and has been used to refer to people who are children of immigrants, were born in Switzerland and have been living in Switzerland for many years and might also be naturalised. The plural of the word ''Secondos'' is a mixture of the Italian singular ''secondo'' and the Spanish plural ending ''-s''. This term is mostly used for the children of Italian and Spanish immigrants who have migrated to Switzerland in the 1960s and 70s. Another term which is used by other countries to refer to the second generation of immigrants is second-generation. It is mostly considered as a positive term and is used by the people themselves too. Italians in Switzerland The Italian population in Switzerland has been making up the biggest part of the country's group of foreign citizens that has migrated to the country seeking work an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediaset
Mediaset Italia S.p.A., also known as Mediaset, is an Italian-based mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE - MediaForEurope. Founded in 1987 by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the group competes primarily against the public broadcaster RAI, the privately owned La7 and (through Sky Group Limited) Comcast's Sky Italia. Mediaset's headquarters are in Milan, Lombardy. Many of its studios are located in the Milano 2 area of Segrate, a municipality bordering Milan, where broadcasts of local station TeleMilano (now airing nationally as Mediaset's Canale 5) began in 1978. After merging with various local broadcaster to form the Canale 5 syndication, much production was moved to Cologno Monzese, where the infrastructure of the former Telealtomilanese was present. The company currently has three main television production centres, in Milan (Segrate, Cologno Monzese) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lombardy
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Il Giorno (newspaper)
''Il Giorno'' is an Italian-language national daily newspaper, based in Milan, Italy; it has numerous local editions in Lombardy. History and profile ''Il Giorno'' was founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca on 21 March 1956, with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge ''Corriere della Sera'', also a daily newspaper published in Milan. Later, because of a financial crisis, Italian public administrator Enrico Mattei and the state-owned oil company Eni bought part of the publishing company. The paper maintains a liberal political stance. In 1959, Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the newspaper's editor. One of the former contributors of the paper was Adolfo Battaglia. In 1997, Eni sold ''Il Giorno'' to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers (''il Resto del Carlino'' and ''La Nazione'') under the ''Quotidiano Nazionale'' network. In 2000, ''Il Giorno'' switched from a broadshe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Albertini
Gabriele Albertini (born 6 July 1950 in Milan) is an Italian politician. Biography In 1974 he Graduated in Law from the University of Milan. He was the Manager of ''Albertini Cesare Spa'', a company working in the aluminium pressure die casting sector, from 1974 to 1997. In 1987 he became a delegate for small business on the executive board of Federmeccanica (the Italian Mechanical Engineers' Trade Union Federation) and in 1996 he became its Chairman (until 1997). In 1997 he was elected Mayor of Milan, with the support of the centre-right coalition, and held office until 2006. In the 2004 European election and in the subsequent 2009 EP election he was elected MEP. He was a member of the European People's Party's group, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism. He was also a delegate on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Relations at NATO's Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the EU's Delegation for R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
