Giulio Cesare Montagna

Giulio Cesare Montagna (born August 4, 1874 in Rome , † December 20, 1953 in Naples ) was an Italian diplomat .

Life

Giulio Cesare Montagna was the son of Paola Galluppi and Francesco Montagna an industrial entrepreneur. He married Maria Logothetti the daughter of Hugo II. Logothetti . Giulio Cesare Montagna studied law and received a doctorate in law . In 1904 he was embassy secretary at the Italian embassy in Mexico . From October to November 1909 after Semana Trágica he served as Secretary in the absence of Giulio Silvestrelli , charge d'affaires in Madrid .

From April 17, 1910 to July 13, 1914, he was Italian consul and chargé d'affaires in Tehran .

From July 13, 1914 he was envoy in Christiania . He was a technical delegate at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 .

From 1919 to 1924 he was Ministre plénipotentiaire in Athens . The Corfu incident occurred during his tenure as envoy to the Greek government . On August 27, 1923, General Enrico Tellini was murdered with an inter-allied commission to investigate the Albanian-Greek border. On August 28, Montagna telegraphed Benito Mussolini , demanding "immediate and exemplary punishment" for those who had committed a "barbaric massacre" the day before. The Greek government blamed bandits for the murder, while Montagna accused the Greek government of being behind the murder. Mussolini ordered the Italian fleet to occupy the island of Corfu on August 29, unless the Greeks accepted harsh demands within 20 hours. These were humiliating demands such as the participation of the Greek government in a solemn ceremony in the Roman Catholic cathedral in Athens, where the entire Greek government cabinet should publicly honor the Italian flag, and the payment of 50 million lire in compensation. The Greek government was ready to talk but on August 3, 1923, Italian troops landed on Corfu. The island's residents had been bombed a few minutes earlier without warning.

He was a delegate to the conferences in 1912, 1916 and 1922 to 1923 at Ouchy Castle , which led to the Treaty of Lausanne . From 1925 to 1927 he was envoy to Rio de Janeiro , where Vice Consul Galeazzo Ciano was among his staff . On April 24, 1939 Viktor Emanuel III took him . in his Senato del Regno d'Italia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fernando García Sanz: Historia de las relaciones entre España e Italia. Imágenes, comercio y política exterior. CSIC, Madrid 1994, ISBN 84-00-06738-X , p. 372 ( limited preview in Google book search).
2. ↑ Mirella Galletti: Medici, missionari, musicisti e militari italiani attivi in ​​Persia, impero ottomano ed Egitto. Istituto per l'Oriente CA Nallino, Rome 2008, p. 132 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ^ Richard JB Bosworth, Mussolini, p. 153
4. ↑ Caroline Milow: The Ukrainian Question 1917–1923 in the field of tension in European diplomacy. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-447-04482-9 , p. 510 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ^ Ray Moseley: Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Yale University Press, New Haven 1999, ISBN 0-300-07917-6 , p. 9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
6. ↑ Senate of the Republic , MONTAGNA Giulio Cesare

predecessor	Office	successor
Giulio Silvestrelli	Italian Chargé d'affaires in Madrid October to November 1909	Giulio Silvestrelli
Camillo Romano Avezzana	Italian consul and chargé d'affaires in Tehran 1910–1914	Carlo Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga
Fedele de Novellis	Italian envoy in Christiania 1914-1919	Silvio Cambiagio
Alessandro De Bosdari	Italian Ministre plénipotentiaire in Athens 1919 to 1924	Pellegrino Ghigi
Lodovico Centurione	Italian envoy to Rio de Janeiro 1925–1927	Bernardo Attolico