Costanzo Ciano
Costanzo Ciano | |
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President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 28 April 1934 – 2 March 1939 | |
Preceded by | Giovanni Giuriati |
Succeeded by | Himself as president of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations |
President of Chamber of Fasces and Corporations | |
In office 23 March 1939 – 26 June 1939 | |
Preceded by | Himself as president of the Chamber of Deputies |
Succeeded by | Dino Grandi |
Personal details | |
Born | Livorno, Italy | 30 August 1876
Died | 26 June 1939 Lucca, Italy | (aged 62)
Political party | National Fascist Party |
Children | Galeazzo Ciano |
Profession | Naval commander |
Costanzo Ciano, 1st Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (Italian: [koˈstantso ˈtʃaːno]; 30 August 1876 – 26 June 1939) was an Italian naval officer and politician. He was the father of Galeazzo Ciano.
Biography
Early life
Born at Livorno, he was the son of Raimondo Ciano and his wife, Argia Puppo. He entered the Livorno Naval Academy in 1891 and was commissioned an officer five years later. In 1901, he became Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant (tenente di vascello) and took part in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912.
First World War
In 1915, before the entrance of Italy to the First World War, he was a capitano di corvetta (lieutenant commander) and was assigned to serve in Cirenaica.
After his return to Italy, he operated at the command of fast MAS units and received a gold medal for military value for a famous action in Bakar Harbour in Croatian Littoral, which was later celebrated by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had also participated.
Ciano was promoted to the rank of capitano di vascello (captain) at the end of the war and ennobled by King Victor Emmanuel III as Conte di Cortellazzo e Buccari.
Postwar fascist
Ciano's ardent nationalism drew him into fascism. He became leader of the Livorno fascio and participated in the March on Rome in October 1922.[1]
On 31 October 1919, he assumed the post of Undersecretary of State for the Regia Marina and was Commissioner for the Merchant Navy. On 9 November 1923, he was appointed rear admiral in the Naval Reserve. He was the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1934 until his death, which occurred at Ponte a Moriano in 1939.
Awards and decorations
References
- ^ Paul H. Lewis (2002). Latin fascist elites: the Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar regimes. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 30–31, 184. ISBN 0-275-97880-X. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
External links
- Newspaper clippings about Costanzo Ciano in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Santomassimo, Gianpasquale (1981). "CIANO, Costanzo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 25: Chinzer–Cirni (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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