Sergio Romano (born 7 July 1929) is an Italian diplomat, writer, journalist, and historian. He is a columnist for the newspaperCorriere della Sera.[1] Romano is also a former Italianambassador to Moscow.
Born inVicenza, he grew up betweenMilan andGenoa in a middle-class business family. He graduated from theliceo classico Cesare Beccaria of Milan, then began working as a journalist. In 1952, he obtained a degree inLaw at theUniversity of Milan, but he never finished his studies inPolitical Science at theUniversity of Genoa before graduation.[2] He travelled to European capitals (Paris,London, andVienna) recently emerged from the war, which directed him to a diplomatic career. He joined theForeign Ministry in 1954, and after four years spent in Rome he was assigned to the seat inLondon, where he remained until 1964. He returned toRome to assist in the Cabinet MinisterSaragat; when the latter was electedPresident of the Republic he followed him to theQuirinal Palace, assigned to the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
From 1968 to 1977, he was in Paris and, after being general manager of cultural relations andAmbassador to NATO (1983–85), he concluded his diplomatic career inMoscow, in the thenSoviet Union. He talks about this experience in the bookMemoirs of a Conservative (2002), concise portrait of the bureaucratic class and Italian diplomacy (and not only) in the era of theCold War.
In 1993, he won the "Pisa National Literary Prize" in the non-fiction section. In 2010, he won the prize "È giornalismo",[5] when he affirmed that he had been ambassador for years without having a bachelor's degree in Political Science but only in Law (to enter the diplomatic service in Italy is required a degree in Political Sciences or in Law or in Economics).[6] In 2010, he spoke at the 2010Ambrosetti Forum.
1977 – Histoire de l'Italie du Risorgimento à nos jours (Editions du Seuil; ed. it. Storia d'Italia dal Risorgimento ai giorni nostri, Mondadori, 1978)
1977 – "La quarta sponda. La guerra di Libia, 1911/1912", Casa EditriceBompiani, 1977, p. 270
1979 – "Giuseppe Volpi. Industria e finanza tra Giolitti e Mussolini", 1979
1994 – FINIS ITALIAE – Declino e morte dell'ideologia risorgimentale – Perché gli italiani si disprezzano (All'insegna del pesce d'oro,ISBN88-444-1283-7)
1995 – Lo scambio ineguale. Italia e Stati Uniti da Wilson a Clinton (Laterza,ISBN88-420-4734-1)
1995 – Storia d'Italia dall'Unità ai nostri giorni
1995 – Cinquant'anni di storia mondiale. La pace e le guerre da Yalta ai giorni nostri (Longanesi,ISBN88-304-1269-4)
1995 – I falsi protocolli. Il "complotto ebraico" dalla Russia di Nicola II ai nostri giorni (Nuova edizione con l'aggiunta di un capitolo sugliebrei invisibili dell'Europa centrorientale), EditriceTEA, Milano (ed. 2008:ISBN978-88-7818-548-7)
1996 – Le Italie parallele. Perché l'Italia non riesce a diventare un paese moderno (Longanesi,ISBN88-304-1387-9)
I took ten months of practical training in a small newspaper of Piedmont, which, however, closed. And so I had to look for another job. Later I enrolled in law school at the university. But at the same time I set to work and graduation, with only three exams missing, remained in the drawer. I close this chapter getting an honorary degree. And today, with this recognition, I also close what was left over in my journalistic activities
— Interview onItalia Oggi, 26 March 2010
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Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – 27 December 1987
