Lorenzo Gasparri
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25 April 1894 Naples, Campania, Italy |
| Died | 28 March 1943 (aged 48) Naples, Campania, Italy |
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 Kingdom of Italy
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| Service/branch |
 Regia Marina
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| Years of service | 1912–1943 |
| Rank | Ammiraglio di Divisione (Vice Admiral) |
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Lorenzo Gasparri (April 25, 1894 – March 28, 1943) was an Italian admiral during World War II.
Gasparri was born in Naples in 1894, and was admitted to the Livorno Naval Academy in February 1912. After graduating as an ensign in 1914, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1915 and he participated in World War I on board the battleships Vittorio Emanuele and Roma, the protected cruiser Libia and the armoured cruiser San Giorgio. By 1918 he was a lieutenant and the fire control officer on San Giorgio; as such, he took part in the Battle of Durazzo, where he received a Silver Medal of Military Valor. At the end of the war, he participated in the occupation of parts of the eastern Adriatic coast by Italian forces.
In 1921 he graduated in engineering in the Polytechnic University of Milan; he then commanded a torpedo boat squadron. In 1926, after promotion to Lieutenant Commander, he served as the executive officer on the cruiser Libia, deployed to the Far East, and then he commanded the Italian Naval Detachment in Tientsin from May 1927 to May 1928. Between 1928 and 1929, with the rank of Commander, he was the commanding officer of the destroyers Francesco Nullo and Turbine. He was then assigned for some time to the Naval Arms and Armaments Office in the Ministry of the Navy; in 1934 he attended the Naval Warfare Institute. In 1935-1936 he participated in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in command of the light cruiser Taranto.
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