List of ambassadors of Italy to Romania

Ambassador of Italy to Romania
Ambasciatore d'Italia al Romania
Incumbent Alfredo Maria Durante Mangoni since July 16, 2021
Style	His Excellency
Inaugural holder	Annibale Strambio
Formation	March 20, 1859
Website	http://www.ambbucarest.esteri.it/ambasciata_bucarest/it/ambasciata/

Ambassadors of Italy have been sent to Romania from as early as October 27, 1878, when the Romanian Principality gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire (as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878).

Annibale Strambio was appointed Consul and Agent of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Bucharest soon after the emergence of the United Principalities through the 1859 union between Moldavia and Wallachia (at a time when, in the aftermath of the Crimean War, Sardinia was one of the European powers overseeing the new state). Between the two dates, Sardinia ensured Italian unification, with Strambio being the first to represent the new Italian state.

Consuls and Agents (1859-1878)

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Name Date of appointment

Annibale Strambio March 20, 1859

Francesco Teccio di Bayo October 23, 1865

Romano Suzinno February 22, 1867

Saverio Fava September 27, 1868

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1878-1945)

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Name Date of appointment

Saverio Fava October 27, 1878

Giuseppe Tornielli Brusati di Vergano December 5, 1879

Francesco Curtopassi January 2, 1888

Emanuele Beccaria Incisa February 3, 1895

Carlo Fasciotti June 18, 1911

Alberto Martin Franklin August 1, 1919

Pompeo Aloisi March 1, 1923

Carlo Durazzo October 1, 1925

Gabriele Preziosi March 8, 1928

Ugo Sola October 27, 1932

Pellegrino Ghigi December 23, 1938

Renato Bova Scoppa July 11, 1941

Chargés d'Affaires (1945-1947)

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Name Date of appointment

Pietro Gerbore March 13, 1945

Manlio Castronuovo February 20, 1947

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1947-1964)

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Name Date of appointment

Michele Scammacca del Murgo e di Agnone October 17, 1947

Alberto Calisse March 14, 1951

Francesco Lo Faro May 22, 1955

Alberto Paveri Fontana di Fontana Pradosa October 23, 1959

Ambassadors (1964-)

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Name Date of appointment observations

Alberto Paveri Fontana di Fontana Pradosa July 15, 1964

Niccolò Moscato November 5, 1964

Antonino Restivo September 30, 1972

Ernesto Quintino Bolasco March 24, 1975

Benedetto Santarelli August 10, 1981

Sergio Cattani September 23, 1985

Luigi Amaduzzi November 12, 1988

Bernardo Uguccioni July 15, 1991

Giuseppe de Michelis di Slonghello January 16, 1995

Anna Blefari Melazzi April 30, 1998

Stefano Ronca May 12, 2003

Daniele Mancini November 7, 2005

Mario Cospito [de] August 2008 January 2013

Diego Brasioli February 2013 (*He was born in Rome in 1961)

In 1985 he graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome.
In 1986 he entered the diplomatic service.
From 1988 to 1995 he was employed at the Italian Embassies in Pakistan and in Jordan.
He returned to Rome and served in the Middle East and Mediterranean Office of the General Directorate for Political Affairs of the Farnesina.
From 1999 to 2007 he was sent to Lebanon, at the Embassy of Italy in Beirut, and he was Consul General in Los Angeles.
From 2007 to 2010 he was the head of the Foreign Ministry Office responsible for the G8 political agenda, anti-terrorism and the fight against organized crime.
From 2010 to 2012 he was President of the Interministerial Committee for Human rights.^[1]