Paolo Vita-Finzi

Paolo Vita-Finzi (born March 31, 1899 in Turin , † August 2, 1986 in Chianciano Terme ) was an Italian diplomat and journalist .

Life

Paolo Vita-Finzi was the son of Charles Vita-Finzi and Celeste Malvano. He studied at the University of Rome Law . He was used as a volunteer in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 at the Battle of Monte Grappa , for which he was awarded the Medal of Bravery (Italy) . He worked with Filippo Turati on Critica Sociale. At the beginning of the Weimar Republic he was the correspondent for Il Mondo di Pannunzio and Corriere della Sera in Berlin .

Paolo Vita-Finzi entered the foreign service in 1924 and became consul in Algiers and from 1926 to 1927 he was the managing consul general in Düsseldorf . He was employed in various departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . From 1928 to 1931 he was Consul General in Tbilisi . His administrative district included Armenia , Azerbaijan , Dagestan and other autonomous regions of the North Caucasus. He kept a diary as the Journal Caucasien in which he also reports on the exile of the Soviet Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky . He visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baku, Odessa and Armenian villages. He is also said to have been consul in Tunisia and Algiers. In April 1935 he was an expert on Eastern Europe at the Stresa Conference . He was employed in the Department of Politics and North America at the State Department. From 1934 to 1935 he was consul in Rosario (Santa Fe) Argentina. From 1936 to 1937 he was Consul General in Sydney . According to the Nuremberg Laws, he was a Jew and lived in Buenos Aires from 1938 to 1947 , where he was friends with Ernesto Sabato , Jorge Luis Borges and Roger Caillois , worked as an editor of La Nación and directed the anti-fascist magazine Domani .

From 1947 to 1950 he was Consul General in London and from 1951 to 1953 Ministre plénipotentiaire in Helsinki , Finland.

He participated in the Italian-Yugoslav negotiations on the implementation of the London Memorandum of 1954 on the division of the Free Territory of Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia .

He headed the Italian delegation in Tirana to restore trade relations between Italy and Albania . From 1955 to 1958 he was ambassador to Oslo , Norway . From 1959 to 1961 he was a delegate to the General Assembly and the Economic Council of the United Nations. From 1962 to 1964 he was ambassador to Budapest .

Publications

• Le delusioni della libertà, 1961
• Terra e libertà in Russia, 1971
• Diario caucasico, 1975
• Antologia apocrifa, 1927; edd. ampliate.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pablo M. Dreizik, I due viaggi di Paolo Vita-Finzi " ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2008 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 remove then this hint. 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Italian ambassador in Helsinki 1951–1953	Elisabetta Kelescian
Carlo Alberto de Vera d'Aragona d'Alvito	Italian ambassador in Oslo 1955–1958	Guido Colonna di Paliano
Giorgio Benzoni	Italian ambassador to Budapest 1962–1964	Paolo Guido Spinelli