Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy) explained

Post:	Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Native Name:
Insignia:	Emblem of Italy.svg
Insigniasize:	70px
Incumbent:	Antonio Tajani
Incumbentsince:	22 October 2022
Acting:	no
Department:	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member Of:	Council of Ministers High Council of Defence
Seat:	Palazzo della Farnesina
Appointer:	The President of Italy
Termlength:	No fixed term
First:	Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

The 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.^[1]

The current minister is Antonio Tajani, a member of Forza Italia, who is serving in the government of Giorgia Meloni since 22 October 2022.^[2]

Kingdom of Italy

Parties

Coalitions

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width=11%	Took office	width=11%	Left office	width=8%	Time in office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	Camillo Benso Count of Cavour	23 March 1861	6 June 1861			Historical Right	Cavour IV	^[3]
	Bettino Ricasoli	12 June 1861	3 March 1862			Historical Right	Ricasoli I	^[4]
	Urbano Rattazzi	3 March 1862	31 March 1862			Historical Left	Rattazzi I	^[5]
	Giacomo Durando	31 March 1862	8 December 1862			Military
	Giuseppe Pasolini	8 December 1862	24 March 1863			Historical Right	Farini
	Emilio Visconti Venosta	24 March 1863	28 September 1864			Historical Right	Minghetti I
	Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora	28 September 1864	20 June 1866			Military	La Marmora II·III
	Bettino Ricasoli	20 June 1866	28 June 1866			Historical Right	Ricasoli II
	Emilio Visconti Venosta	28 June 1866	10 April 1867			Historical Right
	Federico Pescetto	10 April 1867	12 April 1867			Historical Right	Rattazzi II
	Pompeo Di Campello	12 April 1867	27 October 1867			Historical Left
	Luigi Federico Menabrea	27 October 1867	14 December 1869			Historical Right	Menabrea I·II·III
	Emilio Visconti Venosta	14 December 1869	20 November 1876			Historical Right	Lanza Minghetti II
	Luigi Amedeo Melegari	20 November 1876	28 December 1877			Historical Left	Depretis I
	Agostino Depretis	28 December 1877	24 March 1878			Historical Left	Depretis II
	Luigi Corti	24 March 1878	24 October 1878			Historical Left	Cairoli I
	Benedetto Cairoli	24 October 1878	19 December 1878			Historical Left
	Agostino Depretis	19 December 1878	14 July 1879			Historical Left	Depretis III
	Benedetto Cairoli	14 July 1879	29 May 1881			Historical Left	Cairoli II·III
	Pasquale Stanislao Mancini	29 May 1881	29 June 1885			Historical Left	Depretis IV·V·VI
	Agostino Depretis	29 June 1885	6 October 1885			Historical Left	Depretis VII
	Carlo Felice Nicolis, Count of Robilant	6 October 1885	4 April 1887			Military
	Agostino Depretis	4 April 1887	29 July 1887			Historical Left	Depretis VIII
	Francesco Crispi	29 July 1887	6 February 1891			Historical Left	Crispi I·II
	Antonio Starabba di Rudinì	6 February 1891	15 May 1892			Historical Right	Di Rudinì I
	Benedetto Brin	15 May 1892	15 December 1893			Military	Giolitti I
	Alberto Blanc	15 December 1893	10 March 1896			Historical Left	Crispi III·IV
	Onorato Caetani	10 March 1896	11 July 1896			Historical Right	Di Rudinì II
	Emilio Visconti Venosta	11 July 1896	1 June 1898			Historical Right	Di Rudinì III·IV
	Raffaele Cappelli	1 June 1898	29 June 1898			Historical Right	Di Rudinì V
	Felice Napoleone Canevaro	29 June 1898	14 May 1899			Military	Pelloux I
	Emilio Visconti Venosta	14 May 1899	15 February 1901			Historical Right	Pelloux II Saracco
	Giulio Prinetti	15 February 1901	9 February 1903			Historical Right	Zanardelli
	Enrico Morin	9 February 1903	3 September 1903			Military
	Tommaso Tittoni	3 September 1903	27 March 1905			Historical Right	Giolitti II Tittoni
	Alessandro Fortis	27 March 1905	24 December 1905			Historical Left	Fortis I
	Antonio Paternò Castello di San Giuliano	24 December 1905	8 February 1906			Historical Right	Fortis II
	Francesco Guicciardini	8 February 1906	29 May 1906			Historical Right	Sonnino I
	Tommaso Tittoni	29 May 1906	10 December 1909			Historical Right	Giolitti III
	Francesco Guicciardini	11 December 1909	31 March 1910			Historical Right	Sonnino II
	Antonio Paternò Castello di San Giuliano	31 March 1910	17 October 1914			Historical Right / Liberal Union	Luzzatti
	Giolitti IV Salandra I
	Antonio Salandra	17 October 1914	31 October 1914			Liberal Union	Salandra I
	Sidney Sonnino	31 October 1914	23 June 1919			Liberal Union	Salandra III Boselli Orlando
	Tommaso Tittoni	23 June 1919	26 June 1919			Liberal Union	Nitti I
	Francesco Nitti	26 June 1919	26 September 1919			Italian Radical Party
	Vittorio Scialoja	26 September 1919	15 June 1920			Liberal Union	Nitti I·II
	Carlo Sforza	15 June 1920	4 July 1921			Democratic Liberal Party	Giolitti V
	Pietro Tomasi della Torretta	4 July 1921	22 February 1922			Independent	Bonomi I
	Carlo Schanzer	26 February 1922	31 October 1922			Democratic Liberal Party	Facta I·II
	Benito Mussolini	31 October 1922	12 September 1929			National Fascist Party	Mussolini
	Dino Grandi	12 September 1929	20 July 1932			National Fascist Party
	Benito Mussolini	20 July 1932	9 June 1936			National Fascist Party
	Galeazzo Ciano	9 June 1936	6 February 1943			National Fascist Party
	Benito Mussolini	6 February 1943	25 July 1943			National Fascist Party
	Raffaele Guariglia	25 July 1943	11 February 1944			Independent	Badoglio I
	Pietro Badoglio	11 February 1944	18 June 1944			Military	Badoglio I·II
	Ivanoe Bonomi	18 June 1944	10 December 1944			Labour Democratic Party	Bonomi II
	Alcide De Gasperi	12 December 1944	13 July 1946			Christian Democracy	Bonomi III Parri De Gasperi I

Italian Republic

Parties:

Coalitions:

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width=11%	Took office	width=11%	Left office	width=8%	Time in office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	Alcide De Gasperi	13 July 1946	18 October 1946			Christian Democracy	De Gasperi II
	Pietro Nenni	18 October 1946	2 February 1947			Italian Socialist Party
	Carlo Sforza	2 February 1947	26 July 1951			Italian Republican Party	De Gasperi III
	De Gasperi IV·V·VI
	Alcide De Gasperi	26 July 1951	17 August 1953			Christian Democracy	De Gasperi VII·VIII
	Giuseppe Pella	17 August 1953	18 January 1954			Christian Democracy	Pella
	Attilio Piccioni	18 January 1954	16 September 1954			Christian Democracy	Fanfani I Scelba
	Gaetano Martino	16 September 1954	19 May 1957			Italian Liberal Party	Scelba Segni I
	Giuseppe Pella	19 May 1957	1 July 1958			Christian Democracy	Zoli
	Amintore Fanfani	1 July 1958	16 February 1959			Christian Democracy	Fanfani II
	Giuseppe Pella	16 February 1959	25 March 1960			Christian Democracy	Segni II
	Antonio Segni	25 March 1960	7 May 1962			Christian Democracy	Tambroni Fanfani III·IV
	Amintore Fanfani	7 May 1962	29 May 1962			Christian Democracy	Fanfani IV
	Attilio Piccioni	29 May 1962	4 December 1963			Christian Democracy	Fanfani IV Leone I
	Giuseppe Saragat	4 December 1963	28 December 1964			Italian Democratic Socialist Party	Moro I·II
	Aldo Moro	28 December 1964	5 March 1965			Christian Democracy	Moro II
	Amintore Fanfani	5 March 1965	30 December 1965			Christian Democracy
	Aldo Moro	30 December 1965	23 February 1966			Christian Democracy
	Amintore Fanfani	23 February 1966	24 June 1968			Christian Democracy	Moro III
	Giuseppe Medici	24 June 1968	12 December 1968			Christian Democracy	Leone II
	Pietro Nenni	12 December 1968	5 August 1969			Italian Socialist Party	Rumor I
	Aldo Moro	5 August 1969	26 June 1972			Christian Democracy	Rumor II
	Rumor III Colombo
	Andreotti I
	Giuseppe Medici	26 July 1972	7 July 1973			Christian Democracy	Andreotti II
	Aldo Moro	7 July 1973	23 November 1974			Christian Democracy	Rumor IV·V
	Mariano Rumor	23 November 1974	29 July 1976			Christian Democracy	Moro IV·V
	Arnaldo Forlani	29 July 1976	4 August 1979			Christian Democracy	Andreotti III·IV·V
	Franco Maria Malfatti	4 August 1979	15 January 1980			Christian Democracy	Cossiga I
	Attilio Ruffini	15 January 1980	4 April 1980			Christian Democracy
	Emilio Colombo	4 April 1980	4 August 1983			Christian Democracy	Cossiga II Forlani
	Spadolini I·II Fanfani V
	Giulio Andreotti	4 August 1983	22 July 1989			Christian Democracy	Craxi I·II
	-				Fanfani VI
	Goria De Mita
	Gianni De Michelis	22 July 1989	28 June 1992			Italian Socialist Party	Andreotti VI·VII
	Vincenzo Scotti	28 June 1992	29 July 1992			Christian Democracy	Amato I
	Giuliano Amato	29 July 1992	1 August 1992			Italian Socialist Party
	Emilio Colombo	1 August 1992	28 April 1993			Christian Democracy
	Beniamino Andreatta	28 April 1993	19 April 1994			Christian Democracy / Italian People's Party	Ciampi
	Leopoldo Elia	19 April 1994	10 May 1994			Italian People's Party
	Antonio Martino	10 May 1994	17 January 1995			Forza Italia	Berlusconi I
	Susanna Agnelli	17 January 1995	17 May 1996			Independent	Dini
	Lamberto Dini	17 May 1996	6 June 2001			Italian Renewal	Prodi I D'Alema I·II Amato II
	Giuliano Amato	6 June 2001	11 June 2001			Independent	Amato II
	Renato Ruggiero	11 June 2001	6 January 2002			Independent	Berlusconi II
	Silvio Berlusconi	6 January 2002	14 June 2002			Forza Italia
	Franco Frattini	14 June 2002	18 November 2004			Forza Italia
	Gianfranco Fini	18 November 2004	17 May 2006			National Alliance	Berlusconi II·III
	Massimo D'Alema	17 May 2006	8 May 2008			Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party	Prodi II
	Franco Frattini	8 May 2008	16 November 2011			The People of Freedom	Berlusconi IV
	Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata	16 November 2011	27 March 2013			Independent	Monti
	Mario Monti	27 March 2013	28 April 2013			Independent
	Emma Bonino	28 April 2013	22 February 2014			Italian Radicals	Letta
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
	Federica Mogherini	22 February 2014	31 October 2014			Democratic Party	Renzi
	Paolo Gentiloni	31 October 2014	12 December 2016			Democratic Party
	Angelino Alfano	12 December 2016	1 June 2018			New Centre-Right / Popular Alternative	Gentiloni
	Enzo Moavero Milanesi	1 June 2018	5 September 2019			Independent	Conte I
	Luigi Di Maio	5 September 2019	22 October 2022			Five Star Movement / Together for the Future	Conte II Draghi
	Antonio Tajani	22 October 2022	Incumbent			Forza Italia	Meloni

Timeline

Italian Republic

See also

• Affari Esteri
• Foreign policy

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ministero degli Affari Esteri – Il Ministro . 2018-08-02 . 2021-09-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210916102014/https://www.esteri.it/MAE/it/ministro . dead .
2. Web site: Governo Meloni. governo.it . 22 October 2022 . 24 October 2022 . It .
3. Web site: IV Governo Cavour . storia.camera.it . 11 April 2020 . Italian . 29 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200729161116/https://storia.camera.it/governi/iv-governo-cavour/ . live .
4. Web site: I Governo Ricasoli . storia.camera.it . 11 April 2020 . Italian . 29 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200729155950/https://storia.camera.it/governi/i-governo-ricasoli/ . live .
5. Web site: I Governo Rattazzi . storia.camera.it . 11 April 2020 . Italian . 19 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200719094305/https://storia.camera.it/governi/i-governo-rattazzi . live .