| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | Italy to Bulgaria |
| Insignia: | Emblem of Italy.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Italy |
| Inaugural: | Domenico Brunenghi |
| Website: | http://ambsofia.esteri.it |
The Italian ambassador in Sofia is the official representative of the Government in Rome to the Government of Bulgaria.
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.[1]
| Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Observations | List of prime ministers of Italy | Prime Minister of Bulgaria | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domenico Brunenghi | Agent and consul general with letter of credentials | Benedetto Cairoli | Todor Burmov | |||
| Benedetto Cairoli | Dragan Tsankov | |||||
| Carlo Alberto Gerbaix de Sonnax | Agostino Depretis | Petko Karavelov | ||||
| Alessandro Riva | Francesco Crispi | Stefan Stambolov | ||||
| Giulio Silvestrelli | Francesco Crispi | Konstantin Stoilov | ||||
| 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.[2] | Giuseppe Zanardelli | Petko Karavelov | |||
| Guglielmo Imperiali | 1891 Marquis Guglielmo Imperiali di Francavilla, head of the Italian Legation in Washington, D.C., Chargé d'affaires of the [3] | Giovanni Giolitti | Racho Petrov | |||
| Fausto Cucchi Boasso | agent and consul general letter of credentials | Giovanni Giolitti | Racho Petrov | |||
| Fausto Cucchi Boasso | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister, with letter of credentials | Sidney Sonnino | Aleksandar Malinov | |||
| From 1922 to 1926 he was | Luigi Luzzatti | Aleksandar Malinov | ||||
| Fausto Cucchi Boasso | Giovanni Giolitti | Stoyan Danev | ||||
| Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti | Francesco Saverio Nitti | Aleksandar Stamboliyski | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Renato Piacentini | Mussolini inviò Amadori a Riga, sostituendolo con il ministro a Riga, Renato Piacentini | Benito Mussolini | Andrey Lyapchev | |||
| Giuliano Corà | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister, with letter of credentials | Benito Mussolini | Aleksandar Malinov | |||
| Giuseppe Sapuppo | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Benito Mussolini | Kimon Georgiev | |||
| Giuseppe Talamo Atenolfi | Benito Mussolini | Georgi Kyoseivanov | ||||
| Massimo Magistrati | Benito Mussolini | Georgi Kyoseivanov | ||||
| Francesco Giorgio Mameli | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Pietro Badoglio | Dobri Bozhilov | |||
| Chargé d'affaires | Ferruccio Parri | Kimon Georgiev | ||||
| Giovanni-Battista Guarnaschelli | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Amintore Fanfani | Anton Yugov | |||
| Gastone Rossi Longhi | 1960: Ambasciatore d'ltaiia ¡n Lima | Ferruccio Parri | Valko Chervenkov | |||
| Filippo Muzi Falconi | Antonio Segni | Valko Chervenkov | ||||
| Amintore Fanfani | Anton Yugov | |||||
| Orazio Antinori di Castel San Pietro Aquae Ortus | extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister | Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |||
| Orazio Antinori di Castel San Pietro Aquae Ortus | Ambassador | Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |||
| Giovanni Leone | Todor Zhivkov | |||||
| Franz Cancellario d'Alena | Franz Cancellario d'Alena ist am 16. Januar 1957 das Exequatur der Bundesregierung erteilt worden. | Giulio Andreotti | Stanko Todorov | |||
| Franz Cancellario d'Alena | Francesco Cossiga | Stanko Todorov | ||||
| Carlo Maria Rossi Arnaud | Francesco Cossiga | Stanko Todorov | ||||
| Giovanni Battistini | Bettino Craxi | Grisha Filipov | ||||
| Paolo Tarony | Amintore Fanfani | Georgi Atanasov (politician) | ||||
| Agostino Mathis | Giulio Andreotti | Andrey Lukanov | ||||
| Stefano Rastrelli | Silvio Berlusconi | Reneta Indzhova | ||||
| Tommaso Troise | Romano Prodi | Zhan Videnov | ||||
| Alessandro Grafini | Massimo D’Alema | Ivan Kostov | ||||
| Giovan Battista Campagnola | Silvio Berlusconi | Simeon Sakskoburggotski | ||||
| Stefano Benazzo | Silvio Berlusconi | Sergei Stanishev | ||||
| Marco Conticelli | Mario Monti | Boyko Borisov | ||||
| Stefano Baldi | Matteo Renzi | Boyko Borisov | ||||
| Giuseppina Zarra | Mario Draghi | Boyko Borisov |