Giulio Andreotti was a Christian Democrat politician, journalist and writer.
He was seven times Prime Minister and twenty-one times minister in numerous dicasteries. Previously, Undersecretary to the Prime Minister from the age of 28 in the governments of Alcide De Gasperi and Giuseppe Pella, from 1947 to 1954.
A prominent member of the Catholic world, in 1945, at the age of 26, he was appointed member of the National Council and then, in 1946 he was elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly on the lists of Christian Democracy for the college of Lazio. In the same college he was later confirmed as a deputy in the Chamber from 1948 to 1987, always with a very large number of preferences.
Elected member of the European Parliament in 1984 and 1989 and councilor of the Municipality of Rome in 1976, on 1 June 1991 he was appointed Senator for life. He is one of the most important Italian political figures of the second half of the twentieth century, for over four decades, starting from the second post-war period, at the center of the main events - as well as many controversies - of national but also international politics.
Complex and multifaceted personality, he combined the skills of statesman with the skills of writer and journalist, accompanied by a proverbial ironic vein that made him the author of famous aphorisms, some of which have entered the current language.
