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Luigi Girolamo Cusani-Confalonieri

Italian diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ25040616 ↗
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Luigi Girolamo Cusani-Confalonieri (April 15, 1861 – March 10, 1934), was the Ambassador of Italy to the United States from November 1, 1910 to May 29, 1914 when he was replaced by Vincenzo Macchi Di Cellere. He was the Ambassador of Italy to Japan from April 9, 1917 to February 17, 1920.

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This entry incorporates text from “Luigi Girolamo Cusani-Confalonieri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.