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GIULIO ANDREOTTI - PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH - Giulio Andreotti (Rome, January 14, 1919 – Rome, May 6, 2013) was an Italian politician, writer and journalist. He was one of the main exponents of the Christian Democrats, a party that was a protagonist of Italian political life for much of the second half of the 20th century. He participated in ten national political elections: he was the candidate with the highest number of preferences in Italy on four occasions (in 1958, 1972, 1979 and 1987) and the second in the other six (in 1948 and 1953, behind Alcide De Gasperi; in 1963 and 1968, behind Aldo Moro; in 1976 and 1983, behind Enrico Berlinguer). Finally, in 1991 he was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga. From 1945 to 2013 he was always part of the Italian legislative assemblies: from the National Consulta to the Constituent Assembly, and then in the Italian Parliament from 1948, as a member of parliament until 1991 and subsequently as a senator for life. Andreotti was the politician with the greatest number of government positions in the history of the republic. He was in fact: seven times Prime Minister (for a total of 2652 days, or 7 years, 3 months and 7 days) and thirty-four times Minister of the Republic also considering the interim positions: eight times Minister of Defense; five times Minister of Foreign Affairs; three times Minister of State Holdings (all interim); four times Minister of Budget and Economic Planning (twice interim in the same Andreotti V Government from 03/27/1979 to 03/28/1979 and from 07/15/1979 to 08/03/1979); three times Minister of Industry, Commerce and Crafts; twice Minister of Finance; twice Minister of the Interior, the first time at just thirty-five years of age (he is still the youngest person elected to that position in the history of the Republic), the second time he was an interim in his 4th government; twice Minister for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (ad interim); twice Minister for Extraordinary Interventions in Southern Italy (in the Moro IV and Moro V governments); once Minister of the Treasury; once Minister for Community Policies (ad interim), once Minister for the Coordination of Scientific and Technological Research (ad interim in his V government). In the history of the Italian Republic, Andreotti is the second Prime Minister for number of days in office, surpassed only by Silvio Berlusconi. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries he was accused in a trial for the crime of mafia-style criminal association. He was acquitted in the first instance by the Court of Palermo with a ruling of 23 October 1999. The Court of Appeal of Palermo, with a ruling of 2 May 2003, declared the crimes of criminal association prior to the spring of 1980 to have been committed but time-barred, while the acquittal was confirmed for all subsequent events since the court noted that after that date, also as a consequence of the murder of Piersanti Mattarella, Christian Democrat president of the Sicilian Region, he changed his attitude by carrying out a ”strong anti-mafia commitment conducted in his own place of political activity”. Finally, the Court of Cassation confirmed the appeal ruling and Andreotti paid the legal costs. He was married from 1945 to Livia Danese (1921-2015), with whom he had four children: Marilena (1946), Lamberto (1950), Stefano (1952) and Serena (1954). In July 2007 he donated his personal archive (then increasing its documentary endowment until his death) to the Luigi Sturzo Institute. PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH