Carlo Azeglio Ciampi held public office at a time when the terms of that office were themselves being contested.
The record lists Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as President of Italy from 1999 to 2006.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was born at Livorno in 1920. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at Convitto Nazionale Cicognini and University of Pisa.
Twentieth-century politics was conducted under the shadow of two world wars, decolonisation and the Cold War, and broadcast to electorates that could watch it happen.
The record of office reads: Italian senator for life (2006–2016), President of Italy (1999–2006) and Governor of the Banca d'Italia (1979–1993).
His political affiliation is recorded as Action Party.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
Formal honours included the Charlemagne Prize (2005), Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1999) and Collar of the Order of Pope Pius IX (1999).
That the career was made in Italy is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi died in 2016, aged 96. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- Italian senator for life (2006–2016)
- President of Italy (1999–2006)
- Governor of the Banca d'Italia (1979–1993)
- Prime Minister of Italy (1993–1994)
- Charlemagne Prize — 2005
- Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class
- Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland — 1999
- Collar of the Order of Pope Pius IX — 1999
- Educated at Convitto Nazionale Cicognini and University of Pisa
