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 appointmentAnnibale Strambio March 20, 1859Francesco Teccio di Bayo October 23, 1865Romano Suzinno February 22, 1867Saverio Fava September 27, 1868
Ministers Plenipotentiary (1878-1945) Name Date of appointmentSaverio 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 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.Diego Brasioli, cv| Marco Giungi || || born in Ancona) Marco GiungicvAlfredo Maria Durante Mangoni
References
Site of the Italian Embassy in Bucharest ( Cronologia dei capi di missione italiani in Romania; Cronologia şefilor de misiune italieni în România) Mihai Pelin (Jurnalul Naţional), "Supravegheaţi - Diplomaţi italieni sub lupa Securităţii" ("Under Surveillance - Italian Diplomats under the Securitate's Magnifying Glass"), January 4, 2007 "Operaţiunea 'Infiltrarea' - Legaţia italiană sub asediul regimului comunist (5)" ("Operation 'Infiltration' - the Italian Legation under the Siege of the Communist Regime" (5)), March 15, 2007