Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic
Incumbent Luigi Di Maio since 5 September 2019
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member of	Council of Ministers High Council of Defence
Seat	Rome
Appointer	The President of Italy
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	March 17, 1861 (1861-03-17)
First holder	Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Website	www.esteri.it

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy. The office was one of the positions which Italy inherited from the Kingdom of Sardinia where it was the most ancient ministry of the government: this origin gives to the office a ceremonial primacy in the Italian cabinet.

Kingdom of Italy

Parties

• 1861–1912:
  •   Historical Right
  •   Historical Left
  •   Military

• 1912–1922:
  •   Liberal Union
  •   Radical Party
  •   Democratic Liberal Party

• 1922–1943:
  •   National Fascist Party

• 1943–1946:
  •   Labour Democratic Party
  •   Christian Democracy
  •   Independent
  •   Military

Coalitions:

• •   Rightist coalition
  •   Leftist coalition
  •   Liberal coalition
  •   Fascist
  •   Mixed coalition

Name (Born–Died)		Portrait	Term of office		Political Party	Government
Minister of Foreign Affairs
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Camillo Benso Count of Cavour (1810–1861)		17 March 1861	6 June 1861	Historical Right	Cavour IV
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Bettino Ricasoli (1809–1880)		12 June 1861	3 March 1862	Historical Right	Cavour IV Ricasoli I
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Urbano Rattazzi (1808–1873)		3 March 1862	31 March 1862	Historical Left	Rattazzi I
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Giacomo Durando (1807–1894)		31 March 1862	8 December 1862	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Giuseppe Pasolini (1815–1876)		8 December 1862	24 March 1863	Historical Right	Farini
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Emilio Visconti Venosta (1829–1914)		24 March 1863	28 September 1864	Historical Right	Minghetti I
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804–1878)		28 September 1864	20 June 1866	Historical Right	La Marmora II·III
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Bettino Ricasoli (1809–1880)		20 June 1866	28 June 1866	Historical Right	Ricasoli II
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Emilio Visconti Venosta (1829–1914)		28 June 1866	10 April 1867	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Federico Pescetto (1817–1882)		10 April 1867	12 April 1867	Historical Right	Rattazzi II
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Pompeo Di Campello (1803–1884)		12 April 1867	27 October 1867	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809–1896)		27 October 1867	14 December 1869	Historical Right	Menabrea I·II·III
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Emilio Visconti Venosta (1829–1914)		14 December 1869	20 November 1876	Historical Right	Lanza Minghetti II
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Luigi Amedeo Melegari (1805–1881)		20 November 1876	28 December 1877	Historical Left	Depretis I
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Agostino Depretis (1813–1887)		28 December 1877	24 March 1878	Historical Left	Depretis II
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Luigi Corti (1823–1888)		24 March 1878	24 October 1878	Historical Left	Cairoli I
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Benedetto Cairoli (1825–1889)		24 October 1878	19 December 1878	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Agostino Depretis (1813–1887)		19 December 1878	14 July 1879	Historical Left	Depretis III
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Benedetto Cairoli (1825–1889)		14 July 1879	29 May 1881	Historical Left	Cairoli II·III
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (1817–1888)		29 May 1881	29 June 1885	Historical Left	Depretis IV·V·VI
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Agostino Depretis (1813–1887)		29 June 1885	6 October 1885	Historical Left	Depretis VII
style="background:Template:Military (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Carlo Felice Nicolis, Count of Robilant (1826–1887)		6 October 1885	4 April 1887	Military
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Agostino Depretis (1813–1887)		4 April 1887	29 July 1887	Historical Left	Depretis VIII
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Francesco Crispi (1819–1901)		29 July 1887	6 February 1891	Historical Left	Crispi I·II
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Antonio Starabba di Rudinì (1839–1908)		6 February 1891	15 May 1892	Historical Right	Rudinì I
style="background:Template:Military (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Benedetto Brin (1833–1898)		15 May 1892	15 December 1893	Military	Giolitti I
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Alberto Blanc (1835–1904)		15 December 1893	10 March 1896	Historical Left	Crispi III·IV
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Onorato Caetani (1842–1917)		10 March 1896	11 July 1896	Historical Right	Rudinì II
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Emilio Visconti Venosta (1829–1914)		11 July 1896	1 June 1898	Historical Right	Rudinì III·IV
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Raffaele Cappelli (1848–1921)		1 June 1898	29 June 1898	Historical Right	Rudinì V
style="background:Template:Military (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Felice Napoleone Canevaro (1838–1926)		29 June 1898	14 May 1899	Military	Pelloux I
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Emilio Visconti Venosta (1829–1914)		14 May 1899	15 February 1901	Historical Right	Pelloux II
Saracco
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Giulio Prinetti (1851–1908)		15 February 1901	9 February 1903	Historical Right	Zanardelli
style="background:Template:Military (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Enrico Morin (1841–1910)		9 February 1903	3 September 1903	Military
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Tommaso Tittoni (1855–1931)		3 September 1903	27 March 1905	Historical Right	Giolitti II
Tittoni
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |	Alessandro Fortis (1842–1909)		27 March 1905	24 December 1905	Historical Left	Fortis I
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Antonio Paternò Castello di San Giuliano (1852–1914)		24 December 1905	8 February 1906	Historical Right	Fortis II
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Francesco Guicciardini (1851–1915)		8 February 1906	29 May 1906	Historical Right	Sonnino I
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Tommaso Tittoni (1855–1931)		29 May 1906	10 December 1909	Historical Right	Giolitti III
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Francesco Guicciardini (1851–1915)		11 December 1909	31 March 1910	Historical Right	Sonnino II
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |	Antonio Paternò Castello di San Giuliano (1852–1914)		31 March 1910	17 October 1914	Historical Right	Luzzatti
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |					Liberal Union	Giolitti IV Salandra I
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Antonio Salandra (1853–1931)		17 October 1914	31 October 1914	Liberal Union	Salandra I
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Sidney Sonnino (1847–1922)		31 October 1914	23 June 1919	Liberal Union	Salandra III Boselli Orlando
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Tommaso Tittoni (1855–1931)		23 June 1919	26 June 1919	Liberal Union	Nitti I
style="background:Template:Italian Radical Party/meta/color;" |	Francesco Nitti (1868–1953)		26 June 1919	26 September 1919	Italian Radical Party
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Vittorio Scialoja (1856–1933)		26 September 1919	15 June 1920	Liberal Union	Nitti I·II
style="background:Template:Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Carlo Sforza (1872–1952)		15 June 1920	4 July 1921	Democratic Liberal Party	Giolitti V
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |	Pietro Tomasi della Torretta (1873–1962)		7 July 1921	22 February 1922	Independent	Bonomi I
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Carlo Schanzer (1865–1953)		26 February 1922	28 October 1922	Liberal Union	Facta I·II
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |	Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)		30 October 1922	12 September 1929	National Fascist Party	Mussolini
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |	Dino Grandi (1895–1988)		12 September 1929	20 July 1932	National Fascist Party
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |	Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)		20 July 1932	9 June 1936	National Fascist Party
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |	Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)		9 June 1936	6 February 1943	National Fascist Party
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |	Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)		6 February 1943	25 July 1943	National Fascist Party
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Raffaele Guariglia (1889–1970)		28 July 1943	11 February 1944	Independent	Badoglio I
style="background:Template:Military (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956)		11 February 1944	8 June 1944	Military	Badoglio I·II
style="background:Template:Italian Reform Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Ivanoe Bonomi (1873–1951)		18 June 1944	10 December 1944	Labour Democratic Party	Bonomi II
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954)		12 December 1944	1 June 1946	Christian Democracy	Bonomi III Parri De Gasperi I

Italian Republic

Parties

• 1946–1994:
  •   Christian Democracy
  •   Socialist Party
  •   Republican Party
  •   Liberal Party
  •   Democratic Socialist Party
  •   Independent

• 1994–present:
  •   People's Party
  •   Forza Italia / The People of Freedom
  •   Italian Renewal
  •   Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party
  •   National Alliance
  •   Italian Radicals
  •   New Centre-Right / Popular Alternative
  •   Five Star Movement
  •   Independent

Coalitions:

• 1946–1994:
  •   Centrist coalition
  •   Organic Centre-left
  •   Pentapartito / Quadripartito
  •   Mixed coalition
• 1994–present:
  •   Centre-right coalition
  •   Centre-left coalition
  •   Mixed coalition

N.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party		Government	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1		Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954) Acting	13 July 1946	18 October 1946	97 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	De Gasperi II
2		Pietro Nenni (1891–1980)	18 October 1946	2 February 1947	107 days	style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Socialist Party
3		Carlo Sforza (1872–1952)	2 February 1947	26 July 1951	4 years, 174 days	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Republican Party	De Gasperi III
						De Gasperi IV·V·VI
(1)		Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954) Acting	26 July 1951	17 August 1953	2 years, 22 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	De Gasperi VII·VIII
4		Giuseppe Pella (1902–1981) Acting	17 August 1953	18 January 1954	154 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Pella
5		Attilio Piccioni (1892–1976)	18 January 1954	16 September 1954	241 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Fanfani I Scelba
6		Gaetano Martino (1900–1967)	16 September 1954	19 May 1957	2 years, 245 days	style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Liberal Party	Scelba Segni I
(4)		Giuseppe Pella (1902–1981)	19 May 1957	1 July 1958	1 year, 43 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Zoli
7		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999) Acting	1 July 1958	16 February 1959	230 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Fanfani II
(4)		Giuseppe Pella (1902–1981)	16 February 1959	25 March 1960	1 year, 38 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Segni II
8		Antonio Segni (1891–1972)	25 March 1960	7 May 1962	2 years, 43 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Tambroni Fanfani III·IV
(7)		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999) Acting	7 May 1962	29 May 1962	22 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Fanfani IV
(5)		Attilio Piccioni (1892–1976)	29 May 1962	4 December 1963	1 year, 189 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Fanfani IV Leone I
9		Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988)	4 December 1963	28 December 1964	1 year, 24 days	style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	Moro I·II
10		Aldo Moro (1916–1978) Acting	28 December 1964	5 March 1965	67 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Moro II
(7)		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	5 March 1965	30 December 1965	300 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy
(10)		Aldo Moro (1916–1978) Acting	30 December 1965	23 February 1966	55 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy
(7)		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	23 February 1966	24 June 1968	2 years, 122 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Moro III
11		Giuseppe Medici (1907–2000)	24 June 1968	12 December 1968	171 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Leone II
(2)		Pietro Nenni (1891–1980)	12 December 1968	5 August 1969	236 days	style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Socialist Party	Rumor I
(10)		Aldo Moro (1916–1978)	5 August 1969	26 June 1972	2 years, 326 days	rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Rumor II
						Rumor III Colombo
						Andreotti I
(11)		Giuseppe Medici (1907–2000)	26 July 1972	7 July 1973	346 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Andreotti II
(10)		Aldo Moro (1916–1978)	7 July 1973	23 November 1974	1 year, 139 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Rumor IV·V
12		Mariano Rumor (1915–1990)	23 November 1974	29 July 1976	1 year, 249 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Moro IV·V
13		Arnaldo Forlani (1925– )	29 July 1976	4 August 1979	3 years, 6 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Andreotti III·IV·V
14		Franco Maria Malfatti (1927–1991)	4 August 1979	15 January 1980	195 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Cossiga I
15		Attilio Ruffini (1925–2011)	15 January 1980	4 April 1980	80 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy
16		Emilio Colombo (1920–2013)	4 April 1980	4 August 1983	3 years, 122 days	rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Cossiga II Forlani
						Spadolini I·II
						Fanfani V
17		Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013)	4 August 1983	22 July 1989	5 years, 352 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Craxi I·II Fanfani VI Goria De Mita
18		Gianni De Michelis (1940–2019)	22 July 1989	28 June 1992	2 years, 342 days	style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Socialist Party	Andreotti VI·VII
19		Vincenzo Scotti (1933– )	28 June 1992	29 July 1992	31 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Amato I
20		Giuliano Amato (1938– ) Acting	29 July 1992	1 August 1992	3 days	style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" |	Italian Socialist Party
(16)		Emilio Colombo (1920–2013)	1 August 1992	28 April 1993	270 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy
21		Beniamino Andreatta (1928–2007)	28 April 1993	19 April 1994	356 days	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Christian Democracy	Ciampi
22		Leopoldo Elia (1925–2008)	19 April 1994	10 May 1994	22 days	style="background:Template:Italian People's Party (1994)/meta/color;" |	Italian People's Party
23		Antonio Martino (1942– )	10 May 1994	17 January 1995	252 days	style="background:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color;" |	Forza Italia	Berlusconi I
24		Susanna Agnelli (1922–2009)	17 January 1995	17 May 1996	1 year, 121 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent	Dini
25		Lamberto Dini (1931– )	17 May 1996	6 June 2001	5 years, 20 days	style="background:Template:Italian Renewal/meta/color;" |	Italian Renewal	Prodi I D'Alema I·II Amato II
(20)		Giuliano Amato (1938– ) Acting	6 June 2001	11 June 2001	5 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent	Amato II
26		Renato Ruggiero (1930–2013)	11 June 2001	6 January 2002	209 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent	Berlusconi II
27		Silvio Berlusconi (1936– ) Acting	6 January 2002	14 November 2002	312 days	style="background:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color;" |	Forza Italia
28		Franco Frattini (1957– )	14 November 2002	18 November 2004	2 years, 4 days	style="background:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color;" |	Forza Italia
29		Gianfranco Fini (1952– )	18 November 2004	17 May 2006	1 year, 180 days	style="background:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color;" |	National Alliance	Berlusconi II·III
30		Massimo D'Alema (1949– )	17 May 2006	8 May 2008	1 year, 357 days	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	Prodi II
(28)		Franco Frattini (1957– )	8 May 2008	16 November 2011	3 years, 192 days	style="background:Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" |	The People of Freedom	Berlusconi IV
31		Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata (1946– )	16 November 2011	27 March 2013	1 year, 131 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent	Monti
32		Mario Monti (1943– ) Acting	27 March 2013	28 April 2013	32 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent
33		Emma Bonino (1948– )	28 April 2013	22 February 2014	300 days	style="background:Template:Italian Radicals/meta/color;" |	Italian Radicals	Letta
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
34		Federica Mogherini (1973– )	22 February 2014	31 October 2014	251 days	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Democratic Party	Renzi
35		Paolo Gentiloni (1954– )	31 October 2014	12 December 2016	2 years, 42 days	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Democratic Party
36		Angelino Alfano (1970– )	12 December 2016	1 June 2018	1 year, 171 days	style="background:Template:Popular Alternative/meta/color;" |	New Centre-Right / Popular Alternative	Gentiloni
37		Enzo Moavero Milanesi (1954– )	1 June 2018	5 September 2019	1 year, 96 days	style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independent	Conte I
38		Luigi Di Maio (1986– )	5 September 2019	Incumbent	4 years, 264 days	style="background:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color;" |	Five Star Movement	Conte II

See also

• Affari Esteri
• Foreign policy