Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944

found: La spia che amò Ciano, 1993:p. 233 (Galeazzo Ciano; b. 1903, Livorno; d. 1944, Verona; conte di Cortelazzo)

found: Galeazzo Ciano, operazione Polonia, c1999:index (Ciano di Castellazzo, Galeazzo)

found: The war diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943, 2015:t.p. (Galeazzo Ciano) rear cover (he was foreign minister of Italy from 1936 until 1943)

found: Wikipedia, February 21, 2020(Galeazzo Ciano; Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari; born 18 March 1903, Livorno; son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano, a founding member of the National Fascist Party; married Benito Mussolini's daughter Edda in 1930, then served as Italian consul in Shanghai; saw action in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-36) as a bomber squadron commander; and was appointed Foreign Minister on his return; following Axis defeats in the Second World War, he began pushing for Italy's exit, and was dismissed from his post; he then served as ambassador to the Vatican; in July 1943 he was among the members of the Grand Council of Fascism that forced Mussolini's ouster and arrest; he fled to Germany but was arrested and turned over to Mussolini's new regime, the Italian Social Republic; on January 11, 1944 he was executed by firing squad)