Guglielmo Imperiali

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Guglielmo Imperiali
Italian ambassador to the Court of St James's
In office
1910–1920
Preceded byGiacomo de Martino
Succeeded byAntonino di San Giuliano
Personal details
Born(1858-08-19)August 19, 1858
Salerno
DiedJanuary 20, 1944(1944-01-20) (aged 85)
Rome

First World War
(1914–18).

Family

Born at Salerno, Imperiali was the second child and first son of the Marquis Francesco Imperiali (1826–1904), from a cadet branch of the Princes of Francavilla, and Clementina Volpicelli, daughter of Pietro Volpicelli, a businessman and landowner, and Teresa Micheroux, from a family of French soldiers established in Naples with King Charles III of Spain. Saint Caterina Volpicelli (1839–1894), a nun and foundress of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was his maternal aunt.[2]

Early career

Imperiali attended law school in Naples, graduating in 1880. He joined the foreign service in 1882, and was posted to the United States at the critical moment of the

Macedonian Question.[1]

Imperiali served very briefly in Belgrade at the beginning of 1904 before being sent as ambassador to Constantinople. He was moved from there to London, taking up residence in the latter in May 1910. There he had the task of defending the Italo-Turkish War, provoked by Italy, and furthering Italy's Balkan interests in the London Conference of 1912–1913. In December 1913 he was appointed a senator.[1]

First World War and post-war

Although at the start of the World War he preferred neutrality, after Italy and the

Paris Peace Conference and a co-signer of the Treaty of Versailles, although his role during this negotiations was less central.[1]

However, in November 1920, due to strong disagreements with the new Italian foreign minister,

Greco-Turkish War
.

After the

Fascists came to power in 1922, Imperiali left his position at the League of Nations in 1923, but began to attend the Senate more regularly, becoming a prominent member of the opposition and an authority in matter of foreign relations.[1]

In 1932, he was made a knight of the Order of the Annunciation, a rare honour for a diplomat.[1] He died at Rome.

List of honours

Italian

Foreign

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Grassi Orsini (2004)
  2. ^ Guglielmo Imperiali, Diario, 1915–1919, ed. Emilia Campochiaro (Soveria Mannelli, 2006), pp. 4–5; Antonio Illibato, Caterina Volpicelli donna della Napoli dell'Ottocento (Soveria Mannelli, 2008), pp. 57–58, 155, 359.
  3. ^ Marco Rimanelli, Sheryl Lynn Postman, The 1891 New Orleans Lynchings and U.S.-Italian Relations: A Look Back, New York: P. Lang 1992.

References

  • Grassi Orsini, Fabio (2004). "Imperiali, Guglielmo". In Caravale, Mario (ed.). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 62. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
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