Name: Giulio

Surname: Andreotti



Giulio Andreotti (Rome, 14 January 1919 – Rome, 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician, writer and journalist. He was among the main exponents of the Christian Democrats, the leading party in Italian political life for much of the second half of the 20th century.

He participated in ten national political elections: he was the candidate with the highest number of 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; 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 the 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 highest number of government positions in the history of the republic. He was in fact: seven times Prime Minister and 32 times Minister of the Republic also considering the interim positions: 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 just thirty-five years old, while the second time he was interim Minister 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 for number of days in office, surpassed only by Silvio Berlusconi.

At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries he was accused in a trial for the crime of mafia-style criminal association. He was acquitted at first instance by the Court of Palermo. The Palermo Court of Appeal, with a ruling dated 2 May 2003, declared the crimes prior to the spring of 1980 committed but time-barred while confirming the acquittal for the subsequent period. The judging body in fact recognized that Andreotti, through his Sicilian contacts, demonstrated, in exchange for electoral support for his current, "an authentic, stable and friendly availability towards the mafiosi" 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 place of political activity". Finally, the Supreme Court confirmed the appeal sentence, condemning Andreotti to pay the legal 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 its documentary collection until his death) to the Luigi Sturzo Institute.

Name: Amintore

Surname: Fanfani



Amintore Fanfani (Pieve Santo Stefano, 6 February 1908 – Rome, 20 November 1999) was an Italian politician, economist and historian. He was five times president of the Senate of the Republic, six times president of the Council of Ministers (becoming, at the age of 79 years and 6 months, the oldest Head of Government of the Italian Republic) and nine times minister of the Republic (holding the positions of minister of foreign affairs, interior and budget and economic planning). In 1965 he held the position of president of the United Nations General Assembly and in March 1972 he was appointed senator fo