Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta

Pietro Paolo Tomasi, marchese Della Torretta (7 April 1873 – 4 December 1962) was an Italian politician and diplomat, and a member of the noble family of the Princes of Lampedusa. Born in

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, he earned a degree in jurisprudence, entering soon into a diplomatic career. From 1910–1914 he led the cabinet of Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonino Paternò-Castello di San Giuliano. Just after the latter's death, in May 1913 Della Torretta was sent to

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as Italian plenipotentiary in the days preceding the outbreak of

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. He was also Ambassador to Petrograd 1917-1919 and served in the Italian delegation at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. From 1921–1922 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ivanhoe Bonomi, having been elected as Senator of the Kingdom in 1921. He was Italian ambassador to the

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1922-1927. Hostile to

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from the start of

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's government, he became President of the Italian Senate on 20 July 1944, after the Fascist regime collapsed.
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Pietro Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II Can ...