Cianetti was one of the fascists tried along with Galeazzo Ciano in the Verona trial of 8–10 January 1944, although of all the defendants he was the only one spared execution, sentenced instead to thirty years imprisonment.Ray Moseley, Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce, p. 77 The letter of apology he had written to Mussolini saved him from the death penalty.Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini: A New Life, London: Phoenix, 2004, p. 441 Following the liberation, he was released and went into exile in Portuguese Mozambique.
