Carlo Sforza
| Carlo Sforza | |
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| President of the Italian National Consult | |
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In office 25 September 1945 – 1 June 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Saragat |
| Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 2 February 1947 – 19 July 1951 |
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| Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Preceded by | Pietro Nenni |
| Succeeded by | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1872 Lucca, Italy |
| Died |
4 September 1952 (aged 80) Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Italian Republican Party |
Count Carlo Sforza (24 January 1872 – 4 September 1952) was an Italian diplomat and anti-Fascist politician.
Sforza was born at Lucca, the second son of Count Giovanni Sforza (1846-1922), an archivist and noted historian from Montignoso (Tuscany), and Elisabetta Pierantoni, born in a family of silk merchants. His father was a descendant of the Counts of Castel San Giovanni, an illegitimate branch of the House of Sforza who had ruled the Duchy of Milan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At the death of his older brother in 1936, Carlo inherited the hereditary title of Count granted to their father in 1910.
After graduating in law from the University of Pisa, Sforza entered the diplomatic service in 1896. He served as consular attaché in Cairo (1896) and Paris (1897), then as consular secretary in Constantinople (1901) and Beijing. He was then appointed chargé d'affaires in Bucharest in 1905, but a diplomatic incident caused him to resign in December of the same year. Nevertheless, he was sent as private secretary of Marquis Emilio Visconti-Venosta, the Italian delegate to the Algeciras Conference.
Visconti-Venosta's recommendation earned him the post of first secretary of legation in Madrid (1906-1907), before being sent as chargé d'affaires in Constantinople (1908-1909) where he witnessed the Young Turk Revolution. Counsellor of Embassy at London in 1909, he then made is first experience of government as cabinet secretary of the Italian foreign minister for some months in the Fortis cabinet. From 1911 to 1915, he was sent back to Beijing where he witnessed the collapse of the Chinese Empire and renegotiated the statute of the Italian concession of Tientsin with the new Chinese authorities.
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