Gianuario (Ariuccio) Carta, (1 January 1931 – 14 February 2017) was an Italian politician of the Christian Democracy political party.

Born in Bitti, Sardinia, on 1 January 1931, Carta graduated with a law degree from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

[citation needed] Prior to entering national politics he served on a regional council in 1965.

[4] Carta was first elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1968 as a Christian Democrat, where he would continue to serve until 1983.

[5][6][7][8] During the 10th legislature, he was called to chair the Senate's parliamentary Agriculture and Forestry Committee, and subsequently, starting from its establishment, the bicameral parliamentary commission of inquiry on the scandal of the branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta.