# List of ambassadors of Italy to Bulgaria

The Italian ambassador in Sofia is the official representative of the Government in Rome to the Government of Bulgaria.

## History

In the period preceding the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, Italian Consulates were already active in the main cities of the country - Plovdiv, Ruse and Sofia. After the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, Italy maintained its Consulates in the first two centres and opened new ones in the ports of Lom (1881), Varna (1889) and Burgas (1903).
On 25 December 1879 in the Royal Palace of Sofia, Domenico Brunenghi solemnly presented his credentials to Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Observations | List of prime ministers of Italy | Prime Minister of Bulgaria | Term end |
| July 3, 1879 | Domenico Brunenghi | Agent and consul general with letter of credentials | Benedetto Cairoli | Todor Burmov | |
| February 9, 1880 | Renato De Martino [it] | March 6, 1898 Italian ambassador to China [it] | Benedetto Cairoli | Dragan Tsankov | |
| January 24, 1884 | Carlo Alberto Gerbaix de Sonnax | | Agostino Depretis | Petko Karavelov | |
| June 29, 1893 | Alessandro Riva | | Francesco Crispi | Stefan Stambolov | |
| November 24, 1895 | Giulio Silvestrelli | | Francesco Crispi | Konstantin Stoilov | |
| August 9, 1901 | Giorgio Polacco († 1902) | With royal decree of November 9, 1902: Giorgio Polacco, comm. extraordinary envoy and 2nd class plenipotentiary minister, placed, on his request, on leave for health reasons from November 15, 1902. On 9 December 1902, the comm. Ceased to live in Milan. Giorgio Polacco, extraordinary envoy and 2nd class plenipotentiary minister. | Giuseppe Zanardelli | Petko Karavelov | November 9, 1902 |
| May 12, 1903 | Guglielmo Imperiali | 1891 Marquis Guglielmo Imperiali di Francavilla, head of the Italian Legation in Washington, D.C., Chargé d'affaires of the Italian ambassador to the United States [it] | Giovanni Giolitti | Racho Petrov | |
| March 31, 1904 | Fausto Cucchi Boasso | agent and consul general letter of credentials | Giovanni Giolitti | Racho Petrov | |
| May 6, 1909 | Fausto Cucchi Boasso | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister, with letter of credentials | Sidney Sonnino | Aleksandar Malinov | |
| June 23, 1910 | Alessandro De Bosdari [it] | From 1922 to 1926 he was Italian ambassador to Germany [it] | Luigi Luzzatti | Aleksandar Malinov | |
| February 23, 1913 | Fausto Cucchi Boasso | | Giovanni Giolitti | Stoyan Danev | |
| September 14, 1920 | Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti | | Francesco Saverio Nitti | Aleksandar Stamboliyski | |
| January 22, 1923 | Sabino Rinella | Sabino Rinella, the Italian charge d'affaires in Belgrade, reported that the Serbians gratefully attributed their recent successes largely to Rumania's attitude. | Benito Mussolini | Aleksandar Stamboliyski | |
| May 26, 1926 | Renato Piacentini | Mussolini inviò Amadori a Riga, sostituendolo con il ministro a Riga, Renato Piacentini | Benito Mussolini | Andrey Lyapchev | |
| January 29, 1931 | Giuliano Corà | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister, with letter of credentials | Benito Mussolini | Aleksandar Malinov | |
| December 31, 1934 | Giuseppe Sapuppo | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Benito Mussolini | Kimon Georgiev | |
| October 27, 1937 | Giuseppe Talamo Atenolfi | | Benito Mussolini | Georgi Kyoseivanov | |
| January 29, 1940 | Massimo Magistrati | | Benito Mussolini | Georgi Kyoseivanov | |
| June 7, 1943 | Francesco Giorgio Mameli | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Pietro Badoglio | Dobri Bozhilov | |
| September 21, 1945 | Piero Vinci [it] | Chargé d'affaires | Ferruccio Parri | Kimon Georgiev | |
| December 14, 1958 | Giovanni-Battista Guarnaschelli | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Amintore Fanfani | Anton Yugov | |
| January 22, 1952 | Gastone Rossi Longhi | 1960: Ambasciatore d'ltaiia ¡n Lima | Ferruccio Parri | Valko Chervenkov | |
| April 27, 1955 | Filippo Muzi Falconi | | Antonio Segni | Valko Chervenkov | |
| December 16, 1958 | Roberto Gaja [it] | | Amintore Fanfani | Anton Yugov | |
| February 26, 1963 | Orazio Antinori di Castel San Pietro Aquae Ortus | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |
| September 2, 1964 | Orazio Antinori di Castel San Pietro Aquae Ortus | Ambassador | Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |
| April 7, 1968 | Giuseppe Puri Purini [de] | | Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |
| January 13, 1972 | Franz Cancellario d'Alena | Franz Cancellario d'Alena ist am 16. Januar 1957 das Exequatur der Bundesregierung erteilt worden. | Giulio Andreotti | Stanko Todorov | |
| January 10, 1979 | Franz Cancellario d'Alena | | Francesco Cossiga | Stanko Todorov | |
| June 9, 1980 | Carlo Maria Rossi Arnaud | | Francesco Cossiga | Stanko Todorov | |
| April 9, 1984 | Giovanni Battistini | | Bettino Craxi | Grisha Filipov | |
| November 21, 1987 | Paolo Tarony | | Amintore Fanfani | Georgi Atanasov (politician) | |
| February 12, 1990 | Agostino Mathis | | Giulio Andreotti | Andrey Lukanov | |
| June 24, 1994 | Stefano Rastrelli | | Silvio Berlusconi | Reneta Indzhova | |
| October 31, 1996 | Tommaso Troise | | Romano Prodi | Zhan Videnov | |
| April 28, 1999 | Alessandro Grafini | | Massimo D’Alema | Ivan Kostov | |
| May 9, 2003 | Giovan Battista Campagnola | | Silvio Berlusconi | Simeon Sakskoburggotski | |
| May 16, 2008 | Stefano Benazzo | | Silvio Berlusconi | Sergei Stanishev | |
| September 3, 2012 | Marco Conticelli | | Mario Monti | Boyko Borisov | |
| September 19, 2016 | Stefano Baldi | | Matteo Renzi | Boyko Borisov | January 2, 2021 |
| January 5, 2021 | Giuseppina Zarra | | Mario Draghi | Boyko Borisov | October 22, 2022 |
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