1. Carlo Sforza's father was a descendant of the Counts of Castel San Giovanni, an illegitimate branch of the House of Sforza who had ruled the Duchy of Milan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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At the death of his older brother in 1936, Carlo Sforza inherited the hereditary title of Count granted to their father in 1910.
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Carlo Sforza served as consular attache in Cairo and Paris, then as consular secretary in Constantinople and Beijing.
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Carlo Sforza was then appointed charge d'affaires in Bucharest in 1905, but a diplomatic incident caused him to resign in December of the same year.
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Carlo Sforza was in favour of an Italian intervention in the First World War on the side of the Allies.
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Carlo Sforza remained foreign minister until the fall of the Giolitti cabinet on 4 July 1921.
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Carlo Sforza was appointed ambassador to France in February 1922 but resigned from office nine months later on 31 October after Benito Mussolini had gained power.
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Carlo Sforza led the anti-fascist opposition in the Senate until being forced into exile in 1926.
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Carlo Sforza published the 1928 book L'Enigme Chinoise based on his experiences in China.
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Carlo Sforza lived in Belgium and France until the German occupation in June 1940.
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Carlo Sforza then settled in England where he lived until moving on to the United States, where he joined the antifascist Mazzini Society.
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In 1946 Carlo Sforza became a member of the Italian Republican Party.
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Carlo Sforza was a convinced advocate and one of the designers of Italy's pro-European policy and with De Gasperi he led Italy into the Council of Europe.
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On 4 March 1911 in Vienna, Carlo Sforza married a Belgian aristocrat, Countess Valentine Errembault de Dudzeele et d'Orroir, whose father, Count Gaston, was Belgian ambassador to Constantinople and later to Vienna, and whose brother, Count Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele, would marry in 1920 the widow of Prince Mirko of Montenegro, himself a brother-in-law of the King of Italy.
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Carlo Sforza was the alleged biological father of Konstanty Jelenski.