Editing Luca Brunelli

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| birth_name = Luca Fantino Antonio Alonso di Brunelli
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'''Luca Brunelli''' (June 29, 1892 - November 22, 1960) was a 20th century [[Mansilla|Mansillian]] ultranationalist politician, self-stylized populist, and junta leader who overthrew the Ferera Dynasty in [[1937 Coup|1937]] and established the modern Mansillian government. Before becoming the de facto leader of Mansilla following the coup, Brunelli was a respected Field Marshal in the court of [[Stephano X]], a position he exploited extensively for political clout and the organizing of revolutionaries. After serving as the functional ruler of Mansilla for more than three decades, Brunelli was assassinated by socialist partisans while driving to a royal function in 1960.

==Biography==
===Early Life===
Luca Brunelli was born on June 29, 1892 to Fantino and Gabriella Brunelli in Sanclaro, Mansilla. In 1903, Luca's father, a low ranking administrator in the regime of Stephano IX, was killed while attempting to break up a drunken brawl between several of Stephano's guards while on furlough at a pub. Deeply disturbed by the death of his father, eleven year old Brunelli swore off all intoxicants and debauchery and prepared for a career in the military, believing that he was called by a higher power to restore discipline and honor to the ranks of the Mansillan army. Brunelli attended a prestigious military academy, finishing at the top of his class and joining a fast track officer program in 1911. 

When the two men who killed Fantino Brunelli were released from prison in 1913, they both subsequently went missing. Their bodies have never been recovered, but, according to legend, Brunelli personally tracked down, captured, heinously tortured, and executed both men, dumping their dismembered corpses into the sea.

===Military Career===
Brunelli's military career was nothing if not meteoric. Although Brunelli never saw deployment abroad (as Mansilla pursued a policy of strict neutrality), he rose through the ranks of the Mansillan army's military police corps at an astounding rate, becoming known as a brutal disciplinarian. He adopted a policy known as ''dottrina senza eccezioni'' (literally translating to, "doctrine of no exceptions"), and was known to pursue full court martials for even the slightest infractions. Naturally, Brunelli made many enemies while serving in the military police corps and was transferred to a desk job by a commanding officer he frequently quarreled with in 1925. This position had Brunelli investigating organized foreign threats to the Mansillan nation, which were essentially nonexistent at the time. Rather than languish in his position, however, Brunelli was blessed with a serendipitous stroke of luck, the formation of the ''Partito Unito dei Lavoratori'', an underground socialist society apposed to the reign of Stephano X, in July of 1926. Historians agree that PUL was no real threat to national security, consisting of only a few hundred members, mostly academics and disgruntled tradesmen, who lacked the arms or level of organization needed to do much more than stage a plantation strike (which were disruptive, but infrequent occurrences at the time). Undeterred, Brunelli decided that, in the absence of a true threat, he would construct one. 

===1937 Coup===
===Gran Custodé of Mansilla===
===Assassination===
Late in the evening on November 22, 1960, while travelling to a ribbon cutting ceremony in Campanattre, a small city northwest of Sanclaro, Brunelli's motorcade was ambushed by socialist partisans staged in the thick brush along the side of the road. Brunelli and his wife, Sofia, were riding in the back of a convertible with the top down at the time of the attack, and had no opportunity to escape the hailstorm of bullets. Brunelli was shot more than thirty times in the span of a few seconds, dying instantly or near instantly from a bullet which pierced his heart and coronary artery. Sofia Brunelli and the Brunellis' chauffer were both killed in the ambush, as well.

==Legacy==
To say that Luca Brunelli constructed and carefully cultivated a cult of personality around himself over the course of his three decade run as Prime Minister of Mansilla would be a wild understatement. According to the official Mansillan narrative,<ref>Provided by Alfredo Bernacchi, the Master Historian of Mansilla, via his 1963 propaganda biography of Brunelli, ''L'uomo di ferro, lo zio di una nazione''.</ref> the entire nation mourned Brunelli's death for months, wearing only black, formal wear in public until well into 1961. By the account of the same source, women could be seen weeping in the street at the thought of living without their glorious leader for years to come. In the years following Brunelli's assassination, more than a dozen settlements were renamed to "Brunelli," notably including the Mansillan capital, Cerano (now "[[Brunelli]]"). Additionally, hundreds, if not thousands of marble statues of Brunelli were constructed and erected in town squares and the courtyards of official buildings around the nation. Many still remain, though more recent Mansillan leaders have attempted to distance themselves somewhat from Brunelli, leading to many of these statues being taken down in recent decades.

Brunelli was succeeded by his handpicked successor, [[Lorenzo di Amaretti]], as Prime Minister (Gran Custode) of Mansilla, who diligently continued Brunelli's "war on degeneracy," though di Amaretti gradually phased out some of Brunelli's more draconian policies and punishments.

==Personal Life==

== Notes ==
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[[Category: Mansilla]]