List of nicknames of prime ministers of Italy

This is a list of nicknames of prime ministers of Italy. Many prime ministers have had a nickname which was in common usage at the time they were in office. Many nicknames can be perceived as disparaging although others are complimentary or affectionate.

List of nicknames

Camillo Benso di Cavour

Full name: Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

• The Great Weaver ()

Bettino Ricasoli

Full name: Bettino Ricasoli

• Iron Baron (Barone di Ferro)

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora

Full name: Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora

• Bomber of the People (Cannoneggiatore del Popolo)

Agostino Depretis

Full name: Agostino Depretis

• Janus Bifrons (Giano Bifronte)
• Chameleon (Camaleonte)

Francesco Crispi

Full name: Francesco Crispi

• The Loner (Il Solitario)

Giovanni Giolitti

Full name: Giovanni Giolitti

• Minister of Underworld (Ministro della Malavita)
• The Man of Dronero (L'Uomo di Dronero)

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Full name: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

• The President of Victory (Il Presidente della Vittoria)

Benito Mussolini

Full name: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini

• Bald Head (, in Lombard language)
• The Jaw (Il Mascella)
• He (Lui)
• The Stinker (, in Romanesco dialect)

Alcide De Gasperi

Full name: Alcide De Gasperi

• Cold polenta (Polenta fredda)

Amintore Fanfani

Full name: Amintore Fanfani

• Purebred Horse (Cavallo di Razza)
• Pony
• There he is again (Rieccolo)

Mario Scelba

Full name: Mario Scelba

• Iron Sicilian (Siciliano di Ferro)

Aldo Moro

Full name: Aldo Moro

• Doctor Divago () – A pun about Doctor Zhivago.
• Purebred Horse ()

Mariano Rumor

Full name: Mariano Rumor

• Pious Mariano (Pio Mariano)

Giulio Andreotti

Full name: Giulio Andreotti

• Divus Julius (Divo Giulio)
• The Hunchback (Il Gobbo)
• Beelzebub (Belzebù)
• Uncle Giulio (Zio Giulio)
• The Sphinx (La Sfinge)
• The Black Pope (Il Papa Nero)
• The Fox (La Volpe)
• Moloch
• The Eternity (L’Eternità)

Francesco Cossiga

Full name: Francesco Cossiga

• Koiga
• The Pickaxe-wielder (Il Picconatore)

Arnaldo Forlani

Full name: Arnaldo Forlani

• Wererabbit (Coniglio Mannaro)
• The Firefighter (Il Pompiere)

Bettino Craxi

Full name: Benedetto Craxi

• The Big Boar (Il Cinghialone)

Giuliano Amato

Full name: Giuliano Amato

• Doctor Subtilis (Dottor Sottile)

Silvio Berlusconi

Full name: Silvio Berlusconi

• The Knight ()
• The Caiman ()
• Daddy ()
• His Broadcasting () – A pun about , "His Eminence".
• The Dwarf ()
• B.

Lamberto Dini

Full name: Lamberto Dini

• The Toad (Il Rospo)

Romano Prodi

Full name: Romano Prodi

• The Professor (Il Professore)
• Mortadella

Massimo D'Alema

Full name: Massimo D'Alema

• Little moustache (Baffino)
• Leader Maximo

Mario Monti

Full name: Mario Monti

• Rigor Montis

Matteo Renzi

Full name: Matteo Renzi

• The Scrapper (Il Rottamatore)
• The Bomb (Il Bomba)
• Renzie
• Renzusconi

Paolo Gentiloni

Full name: Paolo Gentiloni Silveri

• Paolo The Calm (Paolo il Calmo)
• The Slow-mover (Er moviola)
• The Un-populist (L'impopulista)

Giuseppe Conte

Full name: Giuseppe Conte

• The Lawyer of the People (L'avvocato del popolo)

Mario Draghi

Full name: Mario Draghi

• Super Mario

Giorgia Meloni

Full name: Giorgia Meloni

• Giorgia
• The Suburbanite (La Borgatara)
• The Fishwife (La Pesciarola)

See also

• List of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia
• List of nicknames of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• List of nicknames of presidents of the United States

References