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Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː n oʊ / CHAH-noh, Italian: [ɡaleˈattso ˈtʃaːno]; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944), was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943. During this period, he was widely seen as Mussolini's most probable successor as ...
Galeazzo Ciano, conte di Cortellazzo (born March 18, 1903, Livorno, Italy—died Jan. 11, 1944, Verona) was an Italian statesman and diplomat who became one of the key figures in the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini after his marriage to Mussolini’s daughter Edda (1930). He was especially influential in bringing about Italy’s entry into ...
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Snobbish and pampered as a child, Galeazzo Ciano disdained Blackshirt violence. Displaying modest journalistic and writing talent, he gained a law degree in 1925, then entered the foreign service with his close friend Filippo Anfuso. Ciano served in Brazil, Argentina, and China, returning to Rome in September 1929. His father, Mussolini's secretly ...
Apparent Axis solidarity masked deep antagonisms. Mussolini and Ciano feared Hitler; yet Nazi might overawed them when they toured Germany in September 1937. Hitler flattered Mussolini, and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop(1893–1946) pressed alliance on Ciano when Nazi leaders inspected Italy in May 1938. During the Sudetenland cr...
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Ciano, Galeazzo. Diplomatic Papers: Being a Record of Nearly 200 Conversations Held during the Years 1936–42 with Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Goering, Ribbentrop, Chamberlain, Eden, Sumner Welles, Schuschnigg, Lord Perth, François-Poncet, and Many Other World Diplomatic and Political Figures, Together with Important Memoranda, Letters, Telegrams, etc.Edited by Malcolm Muggeridge. Translated by Stuart Hood. London, 1948. ———. Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945, from the Archives of t...
Secondary Sources
Guerri, Giordano Bruno. Galeazzo Ciano: Una vita, 1903–1944.Milan, 1979. Moseley, Ray. Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. New Haven, Conn., 1999. Brian R. Sullivan
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, II conte di Cortellazzo e Buccari (Livorno, 18 marzo 1903 – Verona, 11 gennaio 1944), è stato un nobile, diplomatico e politico italiano. Figlio dell' ammiraglio Costanzo Ciano e di Carolina Pini, nel 1930 sposò Edda Mussolini .
Dec 13, 2022 · Edda Ciano, née Edda Mussolini, was the headstrong favourite child of Il Duce. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in 1938, with Galeazzo Ciano seen just to Hitler’s right. Germany and Italy would enter a new political and military alliance the following year, dubbed the ‘Pact of Steel’. (Image by Getty Images)
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Feb 18, 2023 · Galeazzo Ciano, conte di Cortellazo was an Italian diplomat who was married to Edda Mussolini. Following his marriage to Mussolini's daughter, Ciano quickly rose through the ranks of the Fascist government that his father-in-law was building. He started as the chief of the press bureau in 1933, and by 1936, he became minister of foreign affairs.
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A few statesmen and diplomats still desperately tried their best to prevent the outbreak of an armed conflict in Europe. For Galeazzo Ciano, however, the fear of an impending war played only a minor role; instead, he was paralyzed by his personal grief over the death of his father, Costanzo Ciano, on... The Politician.
