Sergio Romano (writer)

Sergio Romano
Sergio Romano (2008)
Born	(1929-07-07) 7 July 1929 (age 87) Vicenza
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Diplomat, historian

Sergio Romano (born 7 July 1929 in Vicenza) is an Italian writer, journalist, and historian. He is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Romano is also a former Italian ambassador to Moscow.

Born in Vicenza, he grew up between Milano and Genova in a middle-class business family. He graduated from the liceo classico Cesare Beccaria of Milan, then began working as a journalist; in 1952 he obtained a degree in law at the University of Milan, but he never finished his studies in Political Science at the University of Genova before graduation. He travelled to European capitals (Paris, London, Vienna) recently emerged from the war, which directed him to a diplomatic career: he joined the Foreign Ministry in 1954, and after four years spent in Rome he was assigned to the seat in London, where he remained until 1964. He returned to Rome to assist in the Cabinet Minister Saragat; when the latter was elected President of the Republic he followed him to the Quirinale, assigned to the General Secretariat of the Presidency.

From 1968 to 1977 he was in Paris and, after being general manager of cultural relations and Ambassador to NATO (1983–85), he concluded his diplomatic career in Moscow, in the then Soviet Union. He talks about this experience in the book Memoirs of a Conservative (2002), concise portrait of the bureaucratic class and Italian diplomacy (and not only) in the era of the Cold War.