Ricotti Sidney Prina

Ricotti Sidney Prina (born August 28, 1887 in Florence , † 1959 ) was an Italian diplomat who was ambassador to Greece and India .

Life

He married his cousin Cristina Morin, (1881 in Florence, 1971) daughter of Costantino Enrico Morin, Admiral of the Royal Navy, Royal Navy Minister, 1903 Foreign Minister. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Florence . In 1915 he entered the foreign service, became private secretary of Carlo Sforza , accompanied him to European conferences and took part in the organization of the Paris Conference in 1922; In 1924 he became the first class secretary of the embassy in Moscow . In January 1925, he was imprisoned by the fascist regime after refusing to become consul general in Tbilisi . In 1926 he was set free, retired and he moved to Tripoli . In 1944, after the liberation of Rome, he headed the Commission for Navy and Colonies. Gave a magazine called Continent! and founded the news agency Ecomond and a School of Colonial Culture . Re-entered the diplomatic service.

From June 1946 to September 1949 he was ambassador to Athens . In 1948 Giovanni Ravalli was a nephew of the then Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza in custody in Athens, as a war crimes case was being prosecuted against him. Among the other Italians in custody was his predecessor in the office of Italian governor in Athens during the German / Italian occupation of Greece, Pellegrino Ghigi . The Greek authorities are investigating crimes against humanity. The De Gasperi V cabinet threatened to withhold reparations payments from the Themistoklis Sofoulis government if an Italian were convicted, with the result that Italian troops in Greece did not commit war crimes.

"... Tra di essi, certamente innocenti perché le nostre troupe a differenza di quelle tedesche non avevano compiuto crimini di guerra né in Grecia né altrove, c'era il Consigliere di Prefettura, Dr. Giovanni Ravalli, diva in seguito Prefetto di Palermo e poi di Roma. ... (... Among them, certainly innocent because our troops, unlike the Germans, had not committed any war crimes in Greece or elsewhere, was the Prefectural Councilor Dr Giovanni Ravalli, who later became Prefect of Palermo and then of Rome. ... ) "

- Biography by Alessandro Marieni Saredo

From September 1949 to April 14, 1952 he was ambassador to New Delhi .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Relazioni internazionali, Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, 1949, p. 27 , The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who, 1953, p. 322
2. ↑ Susanne C. Knittel, Unheimliche Geschichte: Grafeneck, Triest and the politics of the Holocaust, Grafeneck, Triest and the politics of Holocaust remembrance, p. 199
3. ↑ Biorgrafie Alessandro Marieni Saredo, [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
1861–63 and 1866: Terenzio Mamiani Alessandro De Bosdari 1919–1924: Giulio Cesare Montagna 1939–1940: Emanuele Grazzi 1941–1943: Pellegrino Ghigi 1946: Andrea Barigiani, Addetto Commerciale 1948: Roberto Tarchiani	Italian Ambassador to Greece June 1946 to September 1949	1954–1958 Casto Caruso 1964–1969: Mario Conti November 1968–25. September 1973: Giovanni D'Orlandi 1973–1977: Luigi Valdettaro della Rocchetta 1978 to September 11, 1979: Mario Franzi 1979–1983: Remo Paolini 1983–1989: Marco Pisa 1989–1991 Michelangelo Jacobucci 1991–1995: Giovanni Dominedò 1994–1999 Enrico Pietromarchi 1999–2003: Agostino Mathis 2003–2005: Gian Paolo Cavarai 2006–2010 Gianpaolo Scarante January 9, 2012–15. October 2015: Claudio Glaentzer Since October 15, 2015 Efisio Luigi Marras
	Italian Ambassador to New Delhi September 1949 to April 14, 1952	Renzo Carrobio di Carrobio , primo segretario di legazione incaricato d 'affairi ad interim. 1954: Alberto Berio Justo Giusti del Giardino 1964–1966: Giorgio Giacomelli Antonio Armellini 1972: Amedeo Guillet