GALEAZZO CIANO

Gian Galeazzo CIANO (March 18, 1903 - January 11, 1944), Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, Italian diplomat and politician. Son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano and son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, to have married the eldest Edda in 1930, after a few years of diplomatic missions abroad he was recalled in Italy and in 1933 appointed head of press for the control and guidance of mass communications. Minister of Popular Culture since 1935, also responsible for the Press and Propaganda, was finally Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Secretary of the National Fascist Party since 1936, after a brief detachment as a volunteer in the war of Ethiopia, until February 6, 1943. Al The Grand Council of Fascism of 25 July 1943 joined the motion of Grandi, determining the fall of Mussolini and the PNF, and attracting the death sentence by the Fascist Republican Party, executed by shooting on 11 November 1943. Photographic portrait with gaze frowning and folded arms performed by Ghitta Carell (September 20, 1899 - January 18, 1972), photographed Hungarian naturalized Italian, official portraitist of the royals of Italy and eminent personalities of the regime, who in the years after the war made portraits to various personalities of culture , politics, nobility and Roman bourgeoisie. Italy, 1930.