title: List of ambassadors of Italy to Romania
text: # List of ambassadors of Italy to Romania
  
  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)
  
  | 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)
  
  | 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)
  
  | 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 | 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. |
  | Marco Giungi | May 11, 2017 | born October 4, 1962 in Ancona) |
  | Alfredo Maria Durante Mangoni | July 16, 2021 |
  