Carlo Aurelio Gianti

Carlo Aurelio Gianti (Ponte a Lieve in Mudello, 23 May 2218 - Romula, 16 March 2287) was an Istalian lawyer and politician, celebrated to have been the first President of the first Istalian Republic.

Adering since the university years to the Quanzarian Socialist Party (Istalian: Partito Socialista Quanzariano), in brief time he arise the rank of the party, becoming one of the most active pro-istalian politicians of the last days of the Union of Quanzari Soviets. Many thinks that it was the charisma of Gianti to allow to the PSQ to became one of the principal parties of the Union and despite the young age at the time he is considered as one of the main architect of the peaceful passage from the Union to the Quanzarian Republic, the provisional compromise solution adopted in 2233 foreseeing the future definitive establishment of an Istalian Republic.

Under the Quanzarian Republic, Gianti dominated the political life together with Francesco Fummi e Giorgio DeLuca, top exponents of the other main istalian parties active on the political stage, Alleanza delle Libertà and Partito Libertario. Each of them were elected several time to the head of the Nation and with a concertated collective work, devoted to the Istalian cause, they transformed progressively the institution of the former socialistic Union into the ones of a fully liberal democratic republic.

It was under the third term of Gianti as President of the Republic that the First Istalian Republic was declared (2 May 2263) and he was then elected as first veritable President of Istalia in 2264.

When declared the Istalian Republic before the Istalian Parliament, Gianti released this historical speech:



"Dear Istalian citizens, it's with extreme pleasure that I'm here, in the Parliament, now the Istalian Parliament, to proclaim our republic, the Istalian Republic. After centuries of divisions our nation is now one, free and indivisible. The old dream of our fathers is now reality: Istalians are free and they have a country where democracy is sacred and untouchable. Long live the Republic! Long live Istalia!"

- Carlo Aurelio Gianti, Extract from the Speech for the Proclamation of the Istalian Republic

He is one of the most celebrated statist of the Istalian history and remembered as the first, and maybe most important, of the Fathers of the Nation, sure the Father of the modern Istalian Nation, nation of Istalians, made of Istalians and led by Istalians for the Istalians.