Alberto Barbieri (21 December 1882 in Modena â ?) was an Italian Army Corps General during the Second World War.
He participated in the Italian-Turkish War and the First World War, at the end of which he had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Promoted to General of Division on 1 July 1937, he became commander of the 61st Infantry Division "Sirte" in Misrata, Libya, until 9 June 1940. At the outbreak of World War II, he remained in Libya, receiving the command of the X Army Corps stationed on the TunisianâÂÂLibyan border. His Corps saw no action in 1940âÂÂ41. He was promoted to Army Corps General on 1 January 1941 and was replaced at the command of the X Corps by General Luigi Nuvoloni on 5 August 1941. He returned to Italy and on 5 October 1941 he became commander of the XVII Army Corps, responsible for the territorial defense of Lazio.
On 15 July 1943 he received command of the Army Corps of Rome, a new Corps that united all the territorial forces already in the military garrison of Rome. He was replaced as commander a few weeks later by Umberto di Giorgio, and at the time of the Armistice of Cassibile, managed to escape capture by the Germans, hiding in Rome.<br> In June 1944, he was first suspended and then discharged from the Army.