Ambassadors of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

have been sent to Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

from as early as October 27, 1878, when the Romanian Principality

Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania was the Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...

 gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 (as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878).

Annibale Strambio was appointed Consul

Consul (representative)

The political title Consul is used for the official representatives of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the peoples of the two countries...

 and Agent of the Kingdom of Sardinia

Kingdom of Sardinia

The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...

 in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 soon after the emergence of the United Principalities

Danubian Principalities

Danubian Principalities was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th century. The term was coined in the Habsburg Monarchy after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in order to designate an area on the lower Danube with a common...

 through the 1859 union between Moldavia

Moldavia

Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...

 and Wallachia

Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...

 (at a time when, in the aftermath of the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

, Sardinia was one of the European powers overseeing the new state). Between the two dates, Sardinia ensured Italian unification

Italian unification

Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century...

, with Strambio being the first to represent the new Italian state.

Consuls and Agents (1859-1878)

Name	Date of appointment
Annibale Strambio	March 20, 1859
Francesco Teccio di Bayo	October 23, 1865
Romano Suzinno	February 22, 1867
Saverio Fava Saverio Fava Baron Saverio Fava was known for his founding of the Italian Ministry in Washington, D.C.. He served as the first Italian Ambassador of the then recently unified Italy to the United States from 1881-1893....	September 27, 1868

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1878-1945)

Name	Date of appointment
Saverio Fava Saverio Fava Baron Saverio Fava was known for his founding of the Italian Ministry in Washington, D.C.. He served as the first Italian Ambassador of the then recently unified Italy to the United States from 1881-1893....	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)

Name	Date of appointment
Pietro Gerbore	March 13, 1945
Manlio Castronuovo	February 20, 1947

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1947-1964)

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-)

Name	Date of appointment
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