By this time, he was already married to his first wife, Raimonda, and had two sons.

By his first wife, Raimonda, he had two sons ( both knighted in 1192 ) and a daughter:

After the Italo-German summit at the Brenner Pass on 18 March 1940, which was attended by Hitler and Mussolini, Count Ciano wrote in his diary: " Everyone in Rome dislikes Ribbentrop ".

* Marzio Ciano, ( Rome, 18 December 1937 – 11 April 1974 ), married to Gloria Lucchesi

* Galeazzo Ciano, Diary 1937 – 1943, Preface by Renzo De Felice ( Professor of History University of Rome ) and original introduction by Sumner Welles ( U. S. Under Secretary of State 1937 – 1943 ), translated by Robert L. Miller ( Enigma Books, 2002 ), ISBN 1-929631-02-2

Unlike a great many leading figures of the government ( such as Galeazzo Ciano and Dino Grandi ), he stayed loyal to Mussolini long after the July 1943 Grand Council of Fascism crisis which ended the latter's rule in Rome.

In response, Bonnet sent out a message to André François-Poncet, now the French Ambassador in Rome, to inform him that he should see Count Ciano to complain, " Such behavior may appear rather unusual in the presence of the French Ambassador and immediately following the unconditional recognition of the Italian Empire ", referring to the annexation of Ethiopia.

Consequently on October 27, in Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Ciano persuaded Ribbentrop — who meanwhile had changed his mind and now supported a four-power conference — that German-Italian arbitration was a good idea as it would be a major move against Franco-British influence.

It was while in Rome that she met Galeazzo Ciano, son of Admiral Count Costanzo Ciano, a loyal Fascist and supporter of Benito Mussolini before his March on Rome.

In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.

Along the same lines, Ribbentrop told the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano on 5 May 1939 " It is certain that within a few months not one Frenchman nor a single Englishman will go to war for Poland ".

At a memorial concert for Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci on May 14, 1931 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza but he refused even though the fascist foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano was present in the audience.

Due to this disagreement, the pact was signed without Japan and became an agreement between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany signed on May 22, 1939, by the foreign ministers of each country and witnessed by Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany.

The pact was signed by representatives of Nazi Germany ( Adolf Hitler ), Fascist Italy ( foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano ), and Imperial Japan ( Japanese ambassador to Germany Saburo Kurusu ).

* Fabrizio Ciano, 3º Conte di Cortellazzo e Buccari ( Shanghai, 1 October 1931 – San José, Costa Rica, 8 April 2008 ), married to Beatriz Uzcategui Jahn, without issue.

Rise and Fall is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of six years reporting on the Third Reich for newspapers, the United Press International ( UPI ), and CBS Radio — terminated by Nazi Party censorship in 1940.

He took part in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War as a lieutenant inspecting the squadron led by Galeazzo Ciano ( a group nicknamed La Disperata ), and as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera.

Nevertheless ( and unlike Ciano ), on July 25, 1943, Buffarini Guidi voted in favor of Benito Mussolini during Dino Grandi's attempt to have the latter deposed and get Italy to sign a peace with the Allies.

Since then, Ferrovie dello Stato was managed by the newly born Ministry of Communications ( including rail transport ), under Costanzo Ciano.

Examples include General Armando Diaz ( Duca della Vittoria ), Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel ( Duca del Mare ), Commodore Luigi Rizzo ( Conte di Grado e di Premuda ), Costanzo Ciano ( Conte di Cortellazzo i Buccari ), Dino Grandi ( Conte di Mordano ) and Cesare Maria de Vecchi ( Conte di Val Cismon ).

On April 27, 1938, in Tirana, Albania, Geraldine married the King in a ceremony witnessed by Galeazzo Ciano, envoy and son-in-law of Il Duce and Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini.

Ciano took part in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia ( 1935 – 36 ) as a bomber squadron commander ( his unit, 15ª squadriglia da bombardamento, was dubbed " La Disperata ") where his future opponent Alessandro Pavolini served as lieutenant.

* Coppa Ciano 1929, 1934

But in 1929 the Coppa Ciano was merged into the main event and at the same time became the name most often used.

He was the son of Count Costanzo Ciano and his wife Carolina Pini ; his father was an Admiral and World War I hero in the Royal Italian Navy, founding member of the National Fascist Party and re-organizer of the Italian Merchant Marine in the 1920s.

The elder Ciano ( he was nicknamed Ganascia, meaning " The Jaw ") was not above making a private profit from his public office ; and as a side effect his son was soon used to living a high-profile glamorous life, which he continued to maintain until almost the end.

Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini's son in law was accused of plotting against the republic during a mock trial staged by the Nazi and fascist hierarchy in Castelvecchio.

Her husband was appointed Italian Consul in Shanghai and it was there their first son, Fabrizio Ciano, was born on 1 October 1931.

Her son Fabrizio Ciano wrote a personal memoir entitled Quando il nonno fece fucilare papà (" When Grandpa had Daddy Shot ").

The Ciano Diaries, 1939 – 1943.

* 1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician ( d. 1944 )

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

* November 18 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944 ) was an Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.

Ciano is remembered for his famous Diaries 1937 – 1943, a daily record of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler, von Ribbentrop, foreign ambassadors and other political figures that proved embarrassing to the Nazi leadership and the Fascist diehards.

* The Ciano Diaries 1939 – 1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936 – 1943 ( 2000 ) ISBN 1-931313-74-1

* Ray Moseley – Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano, ( Yale University Press, 1999 ) ISBN 0-300-07917-6

* Michael Salter and Lorie Charlesworth – " Ribbentrop and the Ciano Diaries at the Nuremberg Trial " in Journal of International Criminal Justice 2006 4 ( 1 ): 103 – 127

* Fabrizio Ciano – Quando il nonno fece fucilare papà (" When Grandpa had Daddy Shot ").

Facing no opposition, the Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica ) has played a decisive role in Italys victory in the eight-month war, but has engaged in a brutal campaign – in which Benito Mussolinis sons Vittorio and Bruno and son-in-law Count Ciano voluntarily participate – of indiscriminate terror bombing and widespread use of mustard gas.

Mussolini's foreign minister and son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano persuaded Mussolini not to make this statement.

* Ciano, Galezzo.

Papen ’ s attempt to address Turkish fears of Italian expansionism by getting Ribbentrop to have Count Galeazzo Ciano promise the Turks that they had nothing to fear from Italy backfired when the Turks found the Italo-German effort to be both patronizing and insulting.

On 11 August 1939, Ribbentrop met the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Count Bernardo Attolico, in Salzburg.

During that meeting, both Ciano and Attolico were horrified to learn from Ribbentrop that Germany planned to attack Poland that summer, and that the Danzig issue was just a pretext for aggression.

Ciano complained furiously that Ribbentrop had violated his promise given only that spring, when Italy signed the Pact of Steel, that there would be no war for the next three years.

Ciano complained in his diary that his arguments " had no effect " ( niente da fare ) on Ribbentrop, who simply refused to believe any information that did not fit in with his preconceived notions.

The end result of these talks was the signing in Berlin on 27 September 1940 of the Tripartite Pact by Ribbentrop, Count Ciano, and Japanese Ambassador Saburo Kurusu.

During the same meeting in East Prussia with Count Ciano, Pierre Laval arrived and promptly agreed to Hitler's and Ribbentrop's demands that he place French police under the command of more radical anti-Semitics and conscript and send hundreds of thousands of French workers to work in Germany's war industry.

Ciano was amazed at the way that Laval fell in with the German demands, and thought it all typical Ribbentrop that he should remind Laval in a very tactless way how this forest had once served as Napoleon's headquarters.

On 30 August, Ribbentrop and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano issued the Second Vienna Award giving Northern Transylvania to Hungary.

Upon hearing of Hitler's intentions, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, through his Foreign Minister Count Ciano, quickly offered up to ten divisions and thirty squadrons of Italian aircraft for the proposed invasion.

From left to right ( front ): Neville Chamberlain | Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier | Daladier, Hitler, Benito Mussolini | Mussolini, and Galeazzo Ciano | Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement.

Aside from the main European Championship Grands Prix, Nuvolari took victories in the Targa Florio and the Coppa Ciano.

Galeazzo Ciano.

In early 1944 Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany.

Ciano was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1903, to an aristocratic family.