﻿{"id":489,"date":"2023-01-09T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/chi-siamo\/lambasciatore\/ambasciatori-precedenti\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:01:20","slug":"ambasciatori-precedenti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/chi-siamo\/lambasciatore\/ambasciatori-precedenti\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Vecchia_Cancelleria_1925_Grande.jpg\" alt=\"Vecchia Cancelleria 1925 Grande\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The old Italian Embassy chancery in 1925<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Source: Library of Congress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe BERTINATTI, minister resident &#8211; 13 April 1861<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe BERTINATTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 26 June 1864<\/p>\n<p>Marcello CERRUTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 27 May 1867<\/p>\n<p>Luigi CORTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 13 February 1870<\/p>\n<p>Alberto BLANC, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 17 July 1875<\/p>\n<p>Saverio FAVA, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 28 August 1881<\/p>\n<p>Saverio FAVA, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary &#8211; 21 May 1893<\/p>\n<p>Edmondo MAYOR DE PLANCHES, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary &#8211; 9 August 1901<\/p>\n<p>Luigi Gerolamo CUSANI CONFALONIERI, ambassador &#8211; 27 January 1910<\/p>\n<p>Vincenzo MACCHI DI CELLERE, ambassador &#8211; 20 November 1913<\/p>\n<p>Camillo ROMANO AVEZZANA, ambassador &#8211; 23 October 1919<\/p>\n<p>Vittorio ROLANDI RICCI, ambassador &#8211; 24 November 1920<\/p>\n<p>Gelasio CAETANI DI SERMONETA, ambassador &#8211; 12 November 1922<\/p>\n<p>Giacomo DE MARTINO, ambassador &#8211; 25 January 1925<\/p>\n<p>Augusto ROSSO, ambassador &#8211; 25 August 1932<\/p>\n<p>Fulvio SUVICH, ambassador &#8211; 18 June 1936<\/p>\n<p>Ascanio COLONNA, ambassador &#8211; 28 October 1938<\/p>\n<p>Alberto TARCHIANI, ambassador &#8211; 23 February 1945<\/p>\n<p>Manlio BROSIO, ambassador con L. C. &#8211; 18 November 1954<\/p>\n<p>Sergio FENOALTEA, ambassador &#8211; 5 May 1961<\/p>\n<p>Egidio ORTONA, ambassador &#8211; 11 June 1967<\/p>\n<p>Roberto GAJA, ambassador &#8211; 12 July 1975<\/p>\n<p>Paolo PANSA CEDRONIO, ambassador &#8211; 18 March 1978<\/p>\n<p>Rinaldo PETRIGNANI, ambassador &#8211; 15 June 1981<\/p>\n<p>Boris BIANCHERI-CHIAPPORI, ambassador &#8211; 31 August 1991<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinando SALLEO, ambassador &#8211; 9 November 1995<\/p>\n<p>Sergio VENTO, ambassador &#8211; 24 March 2003<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni CASTELLANETA, ambassador &#8211; 1 October 2005<\/p>\n<p>Giulio Maria TERZI DI SANT\u2019AGATA, ambassador &#8211; 1 October 2009<\/p>\n<p>Claudio BISOGNIERO, ambassador &#8211; 6 February 2012<\/p>\n<p>Armando VARRICCHIO, ambassador &#8211; 2 March 2016<\/p>\n<p>Mariangela ZAPPIA, ambassador &#8211; 1 July 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The old Italian Embassy chancery in 1925 Source: Library of Congress &nbsp; Giuseppe BERTINATTI, minister resident &#8211; 13 April 1861 Giuseppe BERTINATTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 26 June 1864 Marcello CERRUTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 27 May 1867 Luigi CORTI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary &#8211; 13 February 1870 Alberto BLANC, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/11963"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}