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Carlo Sforza (1872-1952) -- Politician <Anti-fascist>

Born in Lucca, Cianca worked as a diplomat and became Italian foreign minister under Giovanni Giolitti (1919-1921).

He led the anti-fascist opposition in the Senate until being forced to emigrate in Belgium in 1926. After the murder in France in 1937 of Carlo Rosselli, leader of the Giustizia e Libertà movement (non-marxist left), Sforza became the de facto leader of Italian antifascism in exile.

Following the 1940 German invasion of France, he moved to England and the United States, where he joined the antifascist Mazzini Society.

With the fall of Fascism, Cianca returned to Italy as a member of the Italian Republican Party and foreign minister (1947–1951) in the De Gasperi cabinet. He was then elected a senator with the Italian Socialist Party. Died in Rome in 1952.