Everything about Carlo Ciampi totally explained
(born
9 December 1920 in
Livorno) is an Italian politician and banker who has been both
Prime Minister of Italy and
President of the Italian Republic. He resigned as President before the swearing-in ceremony of his successor
Giorgio Napolitano. He is currently a
senator for life in the
Italian Senate.
Biography
Education
Ciampi was born in
Livorno (
Tuscany).
After receiving a degree in
literature in
1941 from the
Scuola Normale of Pisa, one of the country's most prestigious
universities, he was called to military duty in
Albania as a lieutenant. On
September 8,
1943, the date of the
armistice with the Allies, he refused to remain in the
Fascist Italian Social Republic, and took refuge in
Abruzzo, in
Scanno. He subsequently managed to pass the lines and reach
Bari, where he joined the
Partito d'Azione (and thus the
Italian resistance movement).
In
1946 he married Franca Pila. The same year, he also obtained a degree in
law from the
University of Pisa in
1946. That same year, he began working at the
Banca d'Italia. He also inscribed to
CGIL, a member of which he remained until
1980.
Oxford University awarded him an
Honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in March 2005.
Career in the Banca d'Italia
In
1960, he was called to work in the central administration of the
Banca d'Italia, where he became Secretary General in
1973, Vice Director General in
1976, and Director General in
1978. In October
1979, he was nominated Governor of the Banca d'Italia and President of the Ufficio Italiano Cambi, positions he filled until
1993.
Prime Minister
From April
1993 to May
1994, he was the Italian
Prime Minister overseeing a
technical government. Later, as Treasury Minister from
1996 to May
1999 in the governments of
Romano Prodi and
Massimo D'Alema, he was credited with adopting the
euro currency. He personally chose the Italian design for the 1-euro coin, whereas all others were left to a television vote among some candidates the ministry had prepared. (See also:
Italian euro coins)
Ciampi chose the
Vitruvian man of
Leonardo da Vinci, on the symbolic grounds that it represented man as a measure of all things, and in particular of the coin: in this perspective,
money was at the service of man, instead of its opposite. The design also fitted very well on the
bimetallic material of the coin.
President of Italy
Ciampi was elected with a broad majority, and was the second president ever to be elected at the first ballot (when there's a requirement of a two-thirds majority) in a joint session of the
Chamber of Deputies, the
Italian Senate and representatives of the Regions.
As a president, he usually refrained from intervening directly into the political debate. However, he's often addressed general issues, without mentioning their connection to the current political debate, in order to state his opinion without being too intrusive. His interventions have frequently stressed the need for all parties to respect the constitution and observe the proprieties of political debate. He is generally held in high regard by all political forces represented in the parliament. The possibility of persuading Ciampi to stand for a second term as president - the so-called
Ciampi-bis - was widely discussed, despite his advancing age but it was officially dismissed by Ciampi himself on
3 May 2006, just a few days before
his mandate expired.
President Ciampi isn't considered to be close to the positions of the
Vatican and the
Catholic church, in a sort of alternance after the devout
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. He has often praised
patriotism, not a common feeling in Italy because of its abuse by the
Fascist regime; President Ciampi, however, seems to want to stress
self-confidence rather than
nationalism.
On
May 5,
2005, he received the
Charlemagne Award of the city of
Aachen. On
June 15,
2005, he was awarded an
honorary doctorate by the
École Normale Supérieure of
Paris.
On
May 1 2008, he attended
Charlemagne Award of the city of
Aachen
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