Carlo Sforza (24 January 1872-4 September 1952) was an Italian Republican Party member of the Constituent Assembly from 1946 to 1948 and a senator from 1919 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1952.
Biography[]
Carlo Sforza was born in Lucca, Kingdom of Italy in 1872 to an illegitimate branch of the Duchy of Milan's House of Sforza. He became a count in 1936. Sforza entered the diplomatic service in 1896, serving as a consul in Cairo, Paris, Constantinople, Beijing, Budapest, Madrid, and London before World War I. He supported Italian intervention in World War I and served as ambassador to the exiled Serbian government during the war. After World War I, Sforza served as Foreign Minister from 1920 to 1921, signing the Treaty of Rapallo and recognizing Fiume (Rijeka) as a free city. He went on to lead the anti-fascist opposition in the Senate under Benito Mussolini before being forced into exile in 1926. In 1937, he succeeded Giustizia e Libertà leader Carlo Rosselli as the leader of the Italian anti-fascist diaspora, and he joined the Mazzini Society in the United States. He returned to Italy in September 1943, joined the Italian Republican Party in 1946, and served as Foreign Minister from 1947 to 1951, supporting a pro-European policy and the joining of the Council of Europe. He died in Rome in 1952.