Italy
The current Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Monti, is independent. The former Prime Ministers Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1993 - 1994), Lamberto Dini (1995 - 1996) and Giuliano Amato (2000 - 2001) were independent when they were in office. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was also the President of the Italian Republic between 1999 and 2006.
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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
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—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)