Name: Giulio

Surname: Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti (Rome, January 14, 1919 - Rome, May 6, 2013) was an Italian politician, writer and journalist. He was one of the main exponents of the Christian Democrats, a leading party in Italian political life for most of the second half of the twentieth century.
He participated in ten national political elections: he was the candidate with the most preferences in Italy on four occasions (in 1958, 1972, 1979 and 1987) and the second in the other six (in 1948 and 1953, behind Alcide De Gasperi; in 1963 and 1968, behind Aldo Moro; in 1976 and 1983, behind Enrico Berlinguer). Finally, in 1991 he was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga. From 1945 to 2013 he was therefore always present in Italian legislative assemblies: from the National Council to the Constituent Assembly, and then in the Italian Parliament from 1948, as a deputy until 1991 and subsequently as a senator for life.
Andreotti was the politician with the most government posts in the history of the republic. In fact, he was: seven times Prime Minister and 32 times Minister of the Republic also considering the interim posts: eight times Minister of Defense; five times Minister of Foreign Affairs; three times Minister of State Holdings (all ad interim); three times Minister of Budget and Economic Planning (once ad interim); three times Minister of Industry, Commerce and Crafts; twice Minister of Finance; twice Minister of the Interior (the youngest in republican history) at only thirty-five, while the second time he was interim in his 4th government; twice Minister for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (ad interim); twice Minister for extraordinary interventions in the South (in the Moro IV and Moro V governments); once Minister of the Treasury; once Minister of Community Policies (ad interim). In the history of the Italian Republic Andreotti is the second Prime Minister by number of days in office, surpassed only by Silvio Berlusconi.
At the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries he was accused in a trial for the crime of criminal association of a mafia type. He was acquitted in the first instance by the Court of Palermo. The Court of Appeal of Palermo, with a sentence of 2 May 2003, declared the crimes prior to the spring of 1980 committed but prescribed while it confirmed the acquittal for the following period. In fact, the judicial body recognized that Andreotti, through his Sicilian referents, demonstrated, in exchange for electoral support to his current, "an authentic, stable, and friendly availability towards the mafia" until 1980, while, after that date and also as a consequence of the assassination of the Christian Democrat governor of Sicily Piersanti Mattarella, he changed his attitude and carried out an "incisive anti-mafia commitment conducted in his own seat of political activity". Finally, the Supreme Court confirmed the appeal sentence, condemning Andreotti to pay the court costs.
He was married from 1945 to 2013 (the year of his death) to Livia Danese (1921-2015), with whom he had four children: Marilena (1946), Lamberto (1950), Stefano (1952) and Serena (1954) . In July 2007 he donated his personal archive (then increasing the documentary endowment until his death) to the Luigi Sturzo Institute.

Autograph type: Autograph on Chamber of Deputies headed paper