# List of ambassadors of Italy to Argentina

The Italian ambassador in Buenos Aires is the official representative of the Government in Rome to the Government of Argentina.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Observations | List of prime ministers of Italy | List of heads of state of Argentina | Term end |
| May 5, 1856 | Marcello Cerruti | Chargé d'affaires | Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour | Justo José de Urquiza | 1861 |
| December 13, 1861 | Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani | Chargé d'affaires | Bettino Ricasoli | Juan Esteban Pedernera | 1864 |
| February 4, 1864 | Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani | | Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora | Bartolomé Mitre | 1867 |
| March 16, 1867 | Luigi Joannini Ceva di San Michele | Chargé d'affaires | Urbano Rattazzi | Bartolomé Mitre | 1868 |
| August 8, 1868 | Enrico della Croce di Dojola | | Urbano Rattazzi | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | 1876 |
| February 18, 1876 | Federico Costanzo Spinola [it] | | Agostino Depretis | Nicolás Avellaneda | 1880 |
| May 30, 1880 | Saverio Fava | | Benedetto Cairoli | Julio Argentino Roca | 1881 |
| August 28, 1881 | Enrico Cova | | Agostino Depretis | Julio Argentino Roca | 1888 |
| February 5, 1888 | Giuseppe Anfora di Licignano | | Francesco Crispi | Miguel Juárez Celman | 1894 |
| November 29, 1894 | Pietro Antonelli [it] | | Francesco Crispi | Luis Sáenz Peña | 1898 |
| February 20, 1898 | Principe di Carlati Lorenzo Friozzi (1858 - 1906) | Chargé d'affaires | Luigi Pelloux | Julio Argentino Roca | 1898 |
| March 24, 1898 | Obizzo Malaspina di Carbonara [it] | | Luigi Pelloux | Julio Argentino Roca | 1901 |
| April 18, 1901 | Francesco Bottaro-Costa | | Giuseppe Zanardelli | Julio Argentino Roca | 1906 |
| October 21, 1906 | Vincenzo Macchi di Cellere | | Sidney Sonnino | José Figueroa Alcorta | 1912 |
| October 3, 1912 | Vittore Cobianchi | | Giovanni Giolitti | Roque Sáenz Peña | 1921 |
| October 6, 1921 | Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano | | Ivanoe Bonomi | Hipólito Yrigoyen | 1923 |
| December 6, 1923 | Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti | | Benito Mussolini | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear | 1924 |
| July 3, 1924 | Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti | ambassador | Benito Mussolini | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear | 1926 |
| May 16, 1926 | Alberto Martin-Franklin | | Benito Mussolini | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear | 1929 |
| November 14, 1929 | Bonifacio Pignatti Morano di Custoza | | Benito Mussolini | Hipólito Yrigoyen | 1932 |
| August 25, 1932 | Mario Arlotta | | Benito Mussolini | Agustín Pedro Justo | 1936 |
| August 7, 1936 | Raffaele Guariglia | | Benito Mussolini | Agustín Pedro Justo | 1939 |
| February 26, 1939 | Gabriele Preziosi | | Benito Mussolini | Roberto María Ortiz | 1940 |
| August 21, 1940 | Raffaele Boscarelli | | Benito Mussolini | Roberto María Ortiz | 1942 |
| April 23, 1942 | Livio Garbaccio | Chargé d'affaires | Benito Mussolini | Ramón Castillo | 1942 |
| May 12, 1942 | Francesco Pittalis | (*July 15, 1906 ) From 1932 to 1942 he was cónsul géneral of Italy in Munich. | Benito Mussolini | Ramón Castillo | 1944 |
| November 21, 1944 | Federico Sensi | Chargé d'affaires, From 3 December 1964 to 8 August 1968 he was Italy's ambassador to Moscow (Soviet Union) Italian ambassador to Russia [it]. | Pietro Badoglio | Edelmiro Julián Farrell | 1946 |
| January 5, 1946 | Giovanni Fornari | Chargé d'affaires | Ferruccio Parri | Juan Perón | 1946 |
| December 28, 1946 | Giustino Arpesani | Giustino Arpesani (1896–1980), a lawyer, Italian politician, and diplomat, was a member of the Liberal Partyfrom 1921 to 1947, when he left the party. | Ferruccio Parri | Juan Perón | 1951 |
| March 14, 1951 | Alberigo Casardi | Chargé d'affaires | Ferruccio Parri | Juan Perón | 1955 |
| April 27, 1955 | Francesco Babuscio Rizzo | | Antonio Segni | Eduardo Lonardi | 1960 |
| July 8, 1960 | Francesco Babuscio Rizzo | | Fernando Tambroni | Arturo Frondizi | 1962 |
| April 30, 1962 | Lanza d'Ajeta di Trabia | | Fernando Tambroni | José María Guido | 1964 |
| December 22, 1964 | Alessandro Tassoni Estense di Castelvecchio | | Giovanni Leone | Arturo Umberto Illia | 1967 |
| September 23, 1967 | Paolo Tallarigo di Zagarise e Sersale | | Giovanni Leone | Juan Carlos Onganía | 1971 |
| December 4, 1971 | Giuseppe De Rege Thesauro | | Emilio Colombo | Alejandro Agustín Lanusse | 1976 |
| April 23, 1976 | Enrico Carrara | | Giulio Andreotti | Jorge Rafael Videla | 1979 |
| May 4, 1979 | Umberto Bozzini | | Francesco Cossiga | Jorge Rafael Videla | 1979 |
| September 4, 1979 | Umberto Bozzini | | Francesco Cossiga | Jorge Rafael Videla | 1982 |
| March 2, 1982 | Sergio Kociancich | | Amintore Fanfani | Alfredo Saint Jean | 1985 |
| February 23, 1985 | Ludovico Incisa di Camerana | | Bettino Craxi | Raúl Alfonsín | 1987 |
| August 7, 1987 | Ludovico Incisa di Camerana | | Amintore Fanfani | Raúl Alfonsín | 1991 |
| December 10, 1991 | Cláudio Moreno | | Giulio Andreotti | Carlos Menem | 1993 |
| June 8, 1993 | Giuseppe Maria Borga [de] | | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | Carlos Menem | 1998 |
| July 11, 1998 | Giovanni Jannuzzi | | Massimo D’Alema | Carlos Menem | 2001 |
| November 5, 2001 | Roberto Nigido | | Silvio Berlusconi | Ramón Puerta | 2005 |
| October 31, 2005 | Stefano Ronca | | Silvio Berlusconi | Néstor Kirchner | 2009 |
| December 28, 2009 | Guido Walter La Tella | | Silvio Berlusconi | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | 2013 |
| January 2, 2013 | Guido Walter La Tella | | Enrico Letta | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | 2013 |
| September 12, 2013 | Teresa Castaldo | | Enrico Letta | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | 2015 |
| January 2, 2015 | Teresa Castaldo | | Matteo Renzi | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | 2018 |
| February 12, 2018 | Giuseppe Manzo | | Giuseppe Conte | Mauricio Macri | 2021 |
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