Lorenzo D'Amaro
| Lorenzo D'Amaro | |
|---|---|
| 2nd Gran Custodé di Regno di Mansilla | |
| In office December 5, 1960 – June 3, 1978 | |
| Monarch | Fernando II |
| Preceded by | Luca Brunelli |
| Succeeded by | Mario di Brambilla |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lorenzo Guido D'Amaro December 20, 1910 Verona, Mansilla |
| Died | April 6, 1983 (aged 72) Brunelli, Mansilla |
| Political party | National Party of Mansilla |
Lorenzo D'Amaro (December 20, 1910 - April 6, 1983) was a Mansillan politician who served as the country's second prime minister under the Brunelli Constitution. The handpicked successor to Luca Brunelli, D'Amaro took office following a brief power struggle after Brunelli's death at the hand of a socialist assassin in 1960. Though he retained most of the policies of his predecessor (so much so that he was often referred to as "Brunelli's ghost"), D'Amaro had the misfortune of developing a severe case of paranoid schizophrenia in his later years, and, by all accounts, went completely insane. After provoking the international community by claiming in 1977 that he, personally, had developed a functional nuclear arsenal and was prepared to bring about a doomsday scenario in order to purge the earth of "degeneracy," his party forcibly removed him from power. He lived the remaining five years of his life under house arrest, during which time he self published an incoherent, rambling, and nonsensical manifesto, which was widely distributed by the Di Brambilla regime to paint D'Amaro as a complete lunatic and justify repealing many of his policies, even those made long before he went insane.