List of Italian ambassadors in the Czech Republic

The Italian Embassy in the Kolowrat Palace on Prague's Lesser Town

This is a list of the Italian ambassadors to the Czech Republic (and previously to Czechoslovakia ).

ambassador

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the President
Jan. 18, 1919	Mario Lago	Chargé (born September 25, 1878 in Savona-27 April 1950 in Capri.) Italian diplomat; 1901 completed a degree in law , 1906 extraordinary secretary of the Colonial Council; 1908 Legation Secretary; 1914–1918 head of the embassy in Tangier; 1919 envoy in Prague; 1920 General Director for Europe	Francesco Saverio Nitti	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Jan. 4, 1920	Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro	Ministre plénipotentiaire 1927 to 1932 ambassador to London	Benito Mussolini
Feb. 28, 1924	Bonifacio Pignatti Morano di Custoza	Ministre plénipotentiaire (born September 18, 1877; 1957).
June 1, 1924	Gabriele Preziosi	Ministre plénipotentiaire (1878–1945), Ambassador to Bucharest
March 22, 1926	Luigi Vannutelli Rey	Ministre plénipotentiaire (* 1880). 1932 to 1936 Ambassador to Brussels
March 22, 1928	Orazio Pedrazzi	Ministre plénipotentiaire (* 1889 in Borgo S. Lorenzo; October 6, 1962 in Florence)
Aug 25, 1932	Guido Rocco	Ministre plénipotentiaire (born November 26, 1886 in Naples) studied law until 1909, joined the foreign service in 1912. 1937 head of the foreign press in the Ministry of Press and Propaganda in Berlin.
July 26, 1935	Domenico de Facendis	Ministre plénipotentiaire April 24, 1923 Chargé d'affaires in Athens		Edvard Beneš
June 12, 1938	Francesco Fransoni	Ministre plénipotentiaire		Emil Hacha
March 6, 1946	Alfonso Tacoli	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Ferruccio Parri	Edvard Beneš
Nov 18, 1948	Francesco Paolo Vanni d'Archirafi	Ministre plénipotentiaire		Klement Gottwald
May 2, 1952	Augusto Assettati D'Amelia	Ministre plénipotentiaire (born May 6, 1903 in Rome) entered the foreign service in 1927. Envoy in Karachi from 1948 to 1951.
Nov 27, 1954	Manlio Castronuovo	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Amintore Fanfani	Antonín Zápotocký
May 10, 1957	Luigi Silvestrelli	Ministre plénipotentiaire	Adone Zoli	Antonín Novotný
Aug 17, 1961	Enrico Aillaud		Fernando Tambroni
Oct. 27, 1962	Andrea Ferrero
Oct 24, 1964	Remigio Danilo Grillo		Giovanni Leone
Oct 31, 1966	Vittorio Winspeare Guicciardi	Born August 19, 1912 in Catania, son of Hilda Smith and Cesare and Francesca de Malfer Winspeare, married Norma Marsh in 1949 and three daughters in 1949. Visited the Excelsior Coll., Jamaica, UN Deputy Secretary General in New York City
Apr 30, 1968	Niccolo di Bernardo Bonsi			Ludvík Svoboda
Feb. 18, 1971	Agostino Benazzo	(* 1895–1978)	Emilio Colombo
March 16, 1973	Pier Lorenzo Crovetto	1952 Consul for the Protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, official seat in Johannesburg	Mariano Rumor
June 7th 1976	Giovanni Falchi		Giulio Andreotti	Gustáv Husák
Jan. 8, 1978	Carlo Albertario
4th Sep 1981	Giovanni Paolo Tozzoli		Giovanni Spadolini
July 29, 1985	Giulio Bilancioni		Bettino Craxi
May 16, 1988	Giovanni Castellani Pastoris		Ciriaco De Mita
Apr 22, 1992	Francesco Olivieri		Giuliano Amato	Vaclav Havel
Apr 8, 1996	Maurizio Moreno	Retired in 2007 .	Romano Prodi
Aug 31, 1999	Paolo Faiola		Massimo D'Alema
July 1, 2003	Giorgio Radicati		Silvio Berlusconi	Václav Klaus
Jan 15, 2007	Fabio Pigliapoco		Romano Prodi
June 13, 2011	Pasquale D'Avino		Silvio Berlusconi
Nov 16, 2014	Aldo Amati		Matteo Renzi	Miloš Zeman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rappresentanti diplomatici italiinai ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ambasciatori precedenti