As in most countries, in 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...

 the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the foreign ministry of the government of the Republic of Italy. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina in Rome...

, is one of the most important ministerial positions. The office was one of the position which Italy inheredited from 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...

 where it was the most ancient ministry of the government: this origin gives to the office a ceremonial primacy into the Italian cabinet.

Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was its legal predecessor state...

Foreign Minister	Took office	Left office
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour	1861	1861
Bettino Ricasoli Bettino Ricasoli Bettino Ricàsoli, 1.º Barone Ricàsoli, 1.º Conte di Brolio was an Italian statesman.-Biography:...	1861	1862
Urbano Rattazzi Urbano Rattazzi Urbano Pio Francesco Rattazzi was an Italian statesman.-Biography:He was born in Alessandria . He studied law at Turin, and in 1838 began his practice, which met with marked success at the capital and Casale. In 1848, Rattazzi was sent to the Sardinian chamber of deputies in Turin as...	1862	1862
Giuseppe Pasolini	1862	1863
Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta was an Italian statesman.-Biography :Visconti-Venosta was born at Milan...	1863	1864
Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora Alfonso Ferrero, Cavaliere La Màrmora was an Italian general and statesman. His brother Alessandro La Marmora founded the branch of the Italian army now called the Bersaglieri.-Biography:...	1864	1866
Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta was an Italian statesman.-Biography :Visconti-Venosta was born at Milan...	1866	1867
Pompeo Di Campello	1867	1867
Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea Federico Luigi, 1º Conte Menabrea, 1st Marquis of Valdora was an Italian general, statesman and mathematician.-Biography:Menabrea was born at Chambéry, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia....	1867	1869
Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta was an Italian statesman.-Biography :Visconti-Venosta was born at Milan...	1869	1876
Luigi Amedeo Melegari	1876	1877
Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Depretis was born at Mezzana Corte, near Stradella, in the province of Pavia ....	1877	1878
Conte Luigi Corti	1878	1878
Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy.From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament...	1878	1878
Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Depretis was born at Mezzana Corte, near Stradella, in the province of Pavia ....	1878	1879
Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy.From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament...	1879	1881
Pasquale Stanislao Mancini Pasquale Stanislao Mancini Pasquale Stanislao Mancini was an Italian jurist and statesman.-Biography:Mancini was born in Castel Baronia, in the province of Avellino...	1881	1885
Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Depretis was born at Mezzana Corte, near Stradella, in the province of Pavia ....	1885	1885
Carlo Felice Nicolis, conte di Robilant Carlo Felice Nicolis, conte di Robilant Carlo Felice Nicolis, conte di Robilant , Italian statesman and diplomat, was a native of Turin.He entered the army, and lost his left hand at Novara, where he was aide-de-camp to Charles Albert, king of Piedmont. He fought in 1859, and reached the grade of general in the Austrian campaign of 1866,...	1885	1887
Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman.-Biography:Depretis was born at Mezzana Corte, near Stradella, in the province of Pavia ....	1887	1887
Francesco Crispi Francesco Crispi Francesco Crispi was a 19th-century Italian politician of Arbëreshë ancestry. He was instrumental in the unification of Italy and was its 17th and 20th Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896.-Sicily:Crispi’s paternal family came originally from the small agricultural...	1887	1891
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì	1891	1892
Benedetto Brin Benedetto Brin Benedetto Brin was an Italian naval administrator and politician.-Biography:Born in Turin, he worked with distinction as a naval engineer until the age of forty. In 1873, Admiral Simone Arturo Saint-Bon, Italy's Naval Minister, appointed him undersecretary of state...	1892	1893
Barone Alberto de Blanc	1893	1896
Onorato Caetani	1896	1896
Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta was an Italian statesman.-Biography :Visconti-Venosta was born at Milan...	1896	1898
Raffaele Cappelli Raffaele Cappelli Raffaele Cappelli was an Italian politician and diplomat....	1898	1898
Felice Napoleone Canevaro	1898	1899
Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta was an Italian statesman.-Biography :Visconti-Venosta was born at Milan...	1899	1901
Giulio Prinetti Giulio Prinetti Giulio Nicolò Marchese Prinettiwas an Italian businessman and politician from Milan.He was the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Giuseppe Zanardelli'speriod between 1901 and 1903, and...	1901	1903
Enrico Morin	1903	1903
Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni was an Italian diplomat, politician and Knight of the Annunziata.-Biography:Tommaso Tittoni was born in Rome, to which he returned in 1870, because his father, Vincenzo, a devotee of the Risorgimento, was forced in 1860 to flee the Papal States.He studied law and, after graduating,...	1903	1905
Antonino Paternò-Castello, marchese di San Giuliano	1905	1906
Conte Francesco Guicciardini	1906	1906
Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni was an Italian diplomat, politician and Knight of the Annunziata.-Biography:Tommaso Tittoni was born in Rome, to which he returned in 1870, because his father, Vincenzo, a devotee of the Risorgimento, was forced in 1860 to flee the Papal States.He studied law and, after graduating,...	1906	1909
Conte Francesco Guicciardini	1909	1910
Antonino Paternò-Castello, marchese di San Giuliano	1910	1914
Barone Sidney Sonnino Sidney Sonnino Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino was an Italian politician.Sonnino was born in Pisa to an Italian father of Jewish heritage and a Welsh mother...	1914	1919
Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni Tommaso Tittoni was an Italian diplomat, politician and Knight of the Annunziata.-Biography:Tommaso Tittoni was born in Rome, to which he returned in 1870, because his father, Vincenzo, a devotee of the Risorgimento, was forced in 1860 to flee the Papal States.He studied law and, after graduating,...	1919	1919
Vittorio Scialoja	1919	1920
Carlo Sforza Carlo Sforza Conte Carlo Sforza was an Italian diplomat and anti-Fascist politician.-Biography:Sforza was born at Montignoso ....	1920	1921
Pietro Tommasi della Torretta	1921	1922
Carlo Schanzer	1922	1922
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....	1922	1929
Dino Grandi Dino Grandi Dino Grandi , Conte di Mordano, was an Italian Fascist politician, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and president of parliament.- Early life :...	1929	1932
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....	1932	1936
Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was an Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. In early 1944 Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini under pressure from Nazi Germany.-Early life:Ciano was born in...	1936	1943
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....	1943	1943
Raffaele Guariglia, Barone di Vituso	July 25, 1943	February 11, 1944
Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino was an Italian soldier and politician...	February 11, 1944	June 8, 1944
Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi was an Italian politician and statesman before and after World War II.Bonomi was born in Mantua. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1909, representing Mantua as a member of the Italian Socialist Party...	June 18, 1944	December 12, 1944
Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics...	December 12, 1944	June 2, 1946

Italian Republic

Foreign Minister	Image	Born - Died	Took office	Left office	Political Party
Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics...		1881 - 1954	June 2, 1946	October 18, 1946	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Pietro Nenni Pietro Nenni Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951...		1891 - 1980	October 18, 1946	January 28, 1947	Italian Socialist Party Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...
Carlo Sforza Carlo Sforza Conte Carlo Sforza was an Italian diplomat and anti-Fascist politician.-Biography:Sforza was born at Montignoso ....		1872 - 1952	February 2, 1947	July 26, 1951	Italian Republican Party Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...
Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics...		1881 - 1954	July 26, 1951	August 17, 1953	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.He was born in Valdengo, Piedmont...		1902 - 1981	August 17, 1953	January 18, 1954	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Attilio Piccioni Attilio Piccioni Attilio Piccioni was an Italian politician, born in Poggio Bustone.He was a member of the Christian Democracy....		1892 - 1976	January 18, 1954	September 16, 1954	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Gaetano Martino Gaetano Martino Gaetano Martino was an Italian politician and university teacher.A native of Messina, Sicily, he was a member of Italian Liberal Party. Gaetano Martino was one of the participants of the Messina Conference in 1955, which would lead to the Treaty of Rome in 1957...		1900 - 1967	September 16, 1954	May 15, 1957	Italian Liberal Party Italian Liberal Party The Italian Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Italy.-Origins:The origins of liberalism in Italy came from the so-called "Historical Right", a parliamentary group formed by Camillo Benso di Cavour in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia following the 1848 revolution...
Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.He was born in Valdengo, Piedmont...		1902 - 1981	May 19, 1957	July 1, 1958	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani was an Italian career politician and the 33rd man to serve the office of Prime Minister of the State. He was one of the well-known Italian politicians after the Second World War, and a historical figure of the Christian Democracy .Fanfani and Giovanni Giolitti are still actually...		1908 - 1999	July 1, 1958	February 15, 1959	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.He was born in Valdengo, Piedmont...		1902 - 1981	February 15, 1959	March 25, 1960	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Antonio Segni Antonio Segni Antonio Segni was an Italian politician who was the 35th Prime Minister of Italy , and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964...		1891 - 1972	March 25, 1960	May 7, 1962	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani was an Italian career politician and the 33rd man to serve the office of Prime Minister of the State. He was one of the well-known Italian politicians after the Second World War, and a historical figure of the Christian Democracy .Fanfani and Giovanni Giolitti are still actually...		1908 - 1999	May 7, 1962	May 29, 1962	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Attilio Piccioni Attilio Piccioni Attilio Piccioni was an Italian politician, born in Poggio Bustone.He was a member of the Christian Democracy....		1892 - 1976	May 29, 1962	December 4, 1963	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuseppe Saragat Giuseppe Saragat Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician who was the fifth President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.Saragat was born in Turin, from Sardinian parents....		1898 - 1988	December 4, 1963	December 28, 1964	Italian Socialist Democratic Party
Aldo Moro Aldo Moro Aldo Moro was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years....		1916 - 1978	December 28, 1964	March 5, 1965	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani was an Italian career politician and the 33rd man to serve the office of Prime Minister of the State. He was one of the well-known Italian politicians after the Second World War, and a historical figure of the Christian Democracy .Fanfani and Giovanni Giolitti are still actually...		1908 - 1999	March 5, 1965	December 30, 1965	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Aldo Moro Aldo Moro Aldo Moro was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years....		1916 - 1978	December 30, 1965	February 23, 1966	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani Amintore Fanfani was an Italian career politician and the 33rd man to serve the office of Prime Minister of the State. He was one of the well-known Italian politicians after the Second World War, and a historical figure of the Christian Democracy .Fanfani and Giovanni Giolitti are still actually...		1908 - 1999	February 23, 1966	June 24, 1968	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuseppe Medici Giuseppe Medici Giuseppe Medici was an Italian politician. Born in Sassuolo, he was a member of the Christian Democracy. He died at Modena....		1907 - 2000	June 24, 1968	December 12, 1968	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Pietro Nenni Pietro Nenni Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951...		1891 - 1980	December 12, 1968	August 5, 1969	Italian Socialist Party Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...
Aldo Moro Aldo Moro Aldo Moro was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years....		1916 - 1978	August 5, 1969	June 26, 1972	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuseppe Medici Giuseppe Medici Giuseppe Medici was an Italian politician. Born in Sassuolo, he was a member of the Christian Democracy. He died at Modena....		1907 - 2000	July 26, 1972	July 7, 1973	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Aldo Moro Aldo Moro Aldo Moro was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years....		1916 - 1978	July 7, 1973	November 23, 1974	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Mariano Rumor Mariano Rumor Mariano Rumor was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana and the 40th Prime Minister of Italy.He was born in Vicenza, Veneto...		1915 - 1990	November 23, 1974	July 29, 1976	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Arnaldo Forlani Arnaldo Forlani This article is about the Italian legislator. For the similar name used as an alias by terrorist Ramzi Yousef for Philippine Airlines Flight 434, see Ramzi Yousef....		1925 -	July 29, 1976	August 4, 1979	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Franco Maria Malfatti Franco Maria Malfatti Franco Maria Malfatti , was an Italian politician and President of the European Commission.-Biography:A descendant of Philip IV of France and wife Joan I of Navarre , Malfatti was born in Rome...		1927 - 1991	August 4, 1979	January 15, 1980	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Attilio Ruffini Attilio Ruffini Attilio Ruffini was an Italian politician.Born in Mantua, he was a member of the Christian Democracy...		1925 -	January 15, 1980	April 4, 1980	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Emilio Colombo Emilio Colombo Emilio Colombo is an Italian politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972. In addition to having held top positions in Italian governments, he was also active in European politics.-Biography:...		1920 -	April 4, 1980	August 4, 1983	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...		1919 -	August 4, 1983	July 22, 1989	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Gianni De Michelis Gianni De Michelis Giovanni De Michelis is an Italian politician.-Biography:De Michelis was born in Venice.His political experience started with the Italian Socialist Party, where he was elected to the municipal council of Venice. He got elected for the first time to the Italian Parliament in 1976 and was elected...		1940 -	July 22, 1989	June 28, 1992	Italian Socialist Party Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...
Vincenzo Scotti Vincenzo Scotti Vincenzo Scotti is an Italian politician and member of Christian Democracy . He was Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs.-Biography:...		1933 -	June 28, 1992	July 29, 1992	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly...		1938 -	July 29, 1992	August 1, 1992	Italian Socialist Party Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...
Emilio Colombo Emilio Colombo Emilio Colombo is an Italian politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972. In addition to having held top positions in Italian governments, he was also active in European politics.-Biography:...		1920 -	August 1, 1992	April 28, 1993	Christian Democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...
Beniamino Andreatta Beniamino Andreatta Beniamino Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.He was a leftish Christian Democrat and one of the founders of the Italian People's Party in 1994.Andreatta was born in Trento...		1928 - 2007	April 28, 1993	April 19, 1994	Italian Popular Party
Leopoldo Elia Leopoldo Elia Leopoldo Elia was an Italian politician.Born in Fano, Marche, he was judge of the Constitutional Court, in Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's government was Minister for Reforms and briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994, when Beniamino Andreatta belong President of Popular Party parliamentary...		1925 - 2008	April 19, 1994	May 10, 1994	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
Antonio Martino Antonio Martino Antonio Martino is an Italian politician, who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994 and Italian Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2006. He is a founding member of Forza Italia, holding party card no. 2.-Career:...		1942 -	May 10, 1994	January 17, 1995	Forza Italia Forza Italia Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....
Susanna Agnelli Susanna Agnelli Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian politician, businesswoman and writer...		1922 - 2009	January 17, 1995	May 17, 1996	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
Lamberto Dini		1931 -	May 17, 1996	June 6, 2001	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly...		1938 -	June 6, 2001	June 11, 2001	The Olive Tree The Olive Tree "The Olive Tree" is a popular song.There are several songs by the title of "The Olive Tree"*From the 1953 musical Kismet and is credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was in fact based on music composed by Alexander Borodin.*Written by Diane...
Renato Ruggiero Renato Ruggiero Renato Ruggiero is an Italian politician. He has been director-general of the World Trade Organisation and was briefly the Italian Foreign Minister in 2001.-Biography:...		1930 -	June 11, 2001	January 6, 2002	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...		1936 -	January 6, 2002	November 14, 2002	Forza Italia Forza Italia Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....
Franco Frattini		1957 -	November 14, 2002	November 18, 2004	Forza Italia Forza Italia Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....
Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, leader of the center-right Future and Freedom party, and the former leader of the conservative National Alliance and the post-fascist Italian Social Movement...		1952 -	November 18, 2004	May 17, 2006	Alleanza Nazionale National Alliance (Italy) National Alliance was a conservative political party in Italy.Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by...
Massimo D'Alema Massimo D'Alema Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician. He is also a journalist and a former national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left...		1949 -	May 17, 2006	May 8, 2008	Democratic Party Democratic Party (Italy) The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....
Franco Frattini		1957 -	May 8, 2008	November 16, 2011	The People of Freedom The People of Freedom The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....
Giulio Terzi Sant'Agata Giulio Terzi Sant'Agata Giulio Maria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat who has been Italy's Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs since November 2011...		1946 -	November 16, 2011	Incumbent	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...