Mario Indelli

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Mario Indelli
Mario Indelli in 1936, during his stay in Durres, doing the roman salute
Consul and Ambassador
Preceded by Italian ambassador in the Kingdom of Albania
Ottaviano Armando Kock
Italian ambassador in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Guido Viola di Campalto
Italian ambassador in the Japanese Empire
Giacinto Auriti
Succeeded by Italian ambassador in the Kingdom of Albania
Francesco Jacomoni
Italian ambassador in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Francesco Mameli
Italian ambassador in the Japanese Empire
Giovanni Revedin di San Martino
Personal details
Born(1886-04-01)1 April 1886
Florence, Italy
Died19 December 1956(1956-12-19) (aged 70)
Rome, Italy

Mario Indelli (Florence, 1 April 1886 – Rome, 19 December 1956) was a diplomat and ambassador who served the Kingdom of Italy and the Republic of Italy.

Biography

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Indelli was born in Florence on 1 April 1886. He was the son of Luigi Indelli (1828-1903), a lawyer with multiple mandates within the House of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy, and brother of another diplomat, Paolo Francesco Indelli, who held the position of general consul and consul from 1910 to 1920. Indelli studied jurisprudence at the University of Bologna, where he graduated on 26 April 1910.[1]

Indelli died in Rome on 19 December 1956.[2]

Diplomatic career

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Upon being appointed as a consular officer, having passed the competitive examination for entry into the diplomatic service, he was assigned to Alexandria, Egypt, by order of March 27, 1911. Starting from May 1911, he operated under the services of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On May 26, 1912, he was promoted to second-class consul and, in July 1912, he held the position of secretary to the Italian delegate at the Italian-Argentine health conference. On February 16, 1913, he was assigned to Smyrna, under the Ottoman Empire, with consular duties and, in December of the same year, to Aydin. Then, in 1914, he returned to Smyrna. In July 1914, he was promoted to first-class consul and, from October 1, 1915, he was assigned to Nice, France.[3]

Vice-Consul in Smyrna in 1918-19, he was then secretary of the Italian delegation to the Lausanne Conference (in 1922-23) and, promoted to secretary of legation, and later assigned to the Directorate General of Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he worked until he was assigned to missions abroad once again.[4] Starting from 28 September 1934, having been promoted to the title of extraordinary envoy and minister plenipotentiary he was assigned to represent the Kingdom of Italy within the Kingdom of Albania,[5] and later on, starting from 7 August 1936, he was assigned the same role of representation within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[6] His last assigned diplomatic role lasted from 1940-1946, in which he was the ambassador of Italy in the Japanese Empire.[7] He was interned by the Japanese following 8 September 1943, right before the Japanese-Italian War.[8]

After the war Indelli returned to Italy, where he retired on 1 June 1947 after 36 years of diplomatic service.[9]

Bibliography

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  • Brusasca, Giuseppe (1949). Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri al servizio del popolo italiano (1943-1949). Tipografia riservata del Ministero degli esteri, Roma.
  • Università degli Studi di Lecce – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Sociali (1967). La Formazione della Diplomazia Nazionale (1861-1915), Repertorio bio-bibliografico dei funzionari del Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma.
  • Gusso, Massimo (2022). Italia e Giappone: dal Patto Anticomintern alla dichiarazione di guerra del luglio 1945. Inquiete convergenze, geopolitica, diplomazia, conflitti globali e drammi individuali (1934-1952). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venezia.
  • Gusso, Massimo (2023). L'ambasciatore Mario Indelli (1886-1956). Appunti e materiali per una biografia diplomatica. in Academia.edu.

References

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  1. ^ Vd. Formazione Diplomazia, pp. 394–395.
  2. ^ "19 Dicembre 1956, mercoledi: Ti ricordi quel giorno? | TakeMeBack.to". takemeback.to (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-11-09.
  3. ^ Vd. Formazione Diplomazia, pp. 393–394.
  4. ^ Vd. Gusso 2023, pp. 5–20, per questi incarichi iniziali.
  5. ^ Vd. Gusso 2023, pp. 21–28
  6. ^ Vd. Gusso 2023, pp. 29–44
  7. ^ Vd. Gusso 2023, pp. 45–62
  8. ^ Vd. Brusasca 1949, pp. 65–67 e Gusso 2023, pp. 62–76; in particolare, per i documenti inediti sull'internamento vd. Gusso 2022, pp. 797–806.
  9. ^ "Books written by diplomats". baldi.diplomacy.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-09.