He was the son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano, a founding member of the National Fascist Party; father and son both took part in Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922. Ciano saw action in the Italo-Ethiopian …

Galeazzo Ciano, conte di Cortellazzo 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).

Ciano was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the period of the British acceptance of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, of the Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War, of Italy's rapprochement and subsequent …

The only son of the naval hero and Fascist political leader Costanzo Ciano, Galeazzo Ciano was born in Livorno, on 18 March 1903. He is best known for his service as foreign minister (1936–1943) under …

Others highlight his opposition to the Germans and the war, thus illustrating that Ciano’s efforts to shape his posthumous self-image were at least partially successful.

Ciano was a rich, bright, and clever fascist whose story ended in early death when he was executed by Mussolini’s regime in January 1944, with Mussolini cravenly allowing his son-in-law to die for his own …

The biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano’s life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini.

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936...

However, he was captured by the Germans and executed in the Republic of Salò. His diaries 1935–43 provide an important insight into the internal workings of Fascist Italy. From: Ciano, Count Galeazzo …

However, when Mussolini fled to northern Italy and became a puppet ruler of a German-sponsored state there, Ciano followed him. He was arrested by the Germans in Oct 1943, and was tried for high …