Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti Explained

Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti
Office:Italian ambassador to Bulgaria
Predecessor:Fausto Cucchi Boasso
Successor:Sabino Rinella
Office2:Italian ambassador to Argentina
Predecessor2:Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano
Successor2:Alberto Martin-Franklin
Predecessor3:Alessandro De Bosdari
Successor3:Luca Orsini Baroni
Birth Date:5 October 1876
Birth Place:Bologna
Death Place:Rome

Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti, Count of Viano, LLD, (5 October 1876  - 9 July 1945) was an Italian politician and diplomat. He was educated at the University of Bologna.

Biography

He graduated in Law in 1897 from the University of Bologna and entered the consular career, following a competition, in 1900. Marescotti was an associate of Prime Minister Sidney Sonnino and was appointed to the Paris Conference. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in The Hague (February 1920), Sofia (1920 - 1923) and Cairo (March 1923). From November 1923 he was Ambassador to Buenos Aires and from March 1926 to December 1929 to Berlin.[1]

In 1939 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.[2] He resigned as Senator on 21 October 1944 following the order of the High Court of Justice for sanctions against fascism.

He wrote two autobiographical books, containing various portions of a diary, covering the First World War and its peace treaty seen by him as a spectator of many conferences and talks.

Works

Honors

Grand cordon of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ambasciatori d'Italia a Sofia. Stefano Baldi. IT. 2021-12-10.
  2. The International Who's Who 1943-44. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 11.