List of presidents of the Senate (Italy)

President of the Senate of the Republic Presidente del Senato della Repubblica
File:Elisabetta Alberti Casellati cropped.jpg Incumbent Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati since 24 March 2018
Style	President
Residence	Palazzo Giustiniani
Appointer	Senate of the Republic
Term length	Length of the legislature
Inaugural holder	Ruggero Settimo
Formation	17 March 1861
Website	www.senato.it

This is a list of the presidents of the Senate of Italy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to the present day.

The President of the Senate of the Republic is the presiding officer of the Italian Senate. The President of the Senate is the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic (after the President of the Republic).

The President of the Senate represents the Senate to external bodies, regulates debates in the Senate chamber by applying its regulations and the rules of the Italian Constitution, and regulates all the activities of its components in order to ensure that it functions correctly.

The President of the Senate, along with the President of the Chamber of Deputies, must be consulted by the President of the Republic before the latter can dissolve one or both the chambers of the Italian Parliament.

Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861)

Parties

•       Independent
•       Moderate Party

N.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party		Legislature
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
President of the Senate of the Kingdom
1	90px	Gaspare Coller (1776–1855)	3 May 1848	30 December 1848			Independent	I (1848)
2		Giuseppe Manno (1786–1868)	13 February 1849	29 May 1855			Moderate Party	II (Jan 1849)
								III (Jul 1849)
								IV (Dec 1849)
								V (1853)
3	90px	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno (1799–1869)	8 November 1855	28 December 1860			Moderate Party
								VI (1857)
								VII (1860)

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Parties

• 1861–1912:
  •       Historical Right
  •       Historical Left
  •       Independent
• 1912–1929:
  •       Liberal Union / Italian Liberal Party
• 1929–1943:
  •       National Fascist Party
• 1943–1946:
  •       Independent

N.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party		Legislature
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
President of the Senate of the Kingdom
1		Ruggero Settimo (1778–1863)	18 February 1861	2 May 1863			Independent	VIII (1861)
2	90px	Federico Sclopis (1798–1888)	24 May 1863	13 October 1864			Independent
3		Giuseppe Manno (1786–1868)	15 October 1864	7 September 1865			Historical Right
4	90px	Gabrio Casati (1798–1873)	8 November 1865	2 November 1870			Historical Right	IX (1865)
								X (1867)
5		Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (1808–1889)	5 December 1870	20 September 1874			Historical Right	XI (1870)
6	90px	Luigi Des Ambrois (1807–1884)	15 November 1874	3 December 1874			Independent	XII (1874)
7	90px	Giuseppe Pasolini (1815–1876)	3 December 1874	3 October 1876			Historical Right
8	85px	Sebastiano Tecchio (1807–1886)	20 November 1876	27 July 1884			Historical Left	XIII (1876)
								XIV (1880)
								XV (1882)
9	90px	Giacomo Durando (1807–1894)	23 November 1884	4 September 1887			Historical Right
								XVI (1886)
10	90px	Domenico Farini (1834–1900)	16 November 1887	15 July 1898			Historical Left
								XVII (1890)
								XVIII (1892)
								XIX (1895)
								XX (1897)
11		Giuseppe Saracco (1821–1907)	10 November 1898	18 October 1904			Historical Left	XXI (1900)
12	85px	Tancredi Canonico (1838–1908)	30 November 1904	20 March 1908			Historical Left	XXII (1904)
13	90px	Giuseppe Manfredi (1828–1918)	20 March 1908	6 November 1918		rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Liberal Union (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Liberal Union	XXIII (1909)
						XXIV (1913)
14	90px	Adeodato Bonasi (1838–1920)	18 November 1918	29 September 1919			style="background:Template:Liberal Union (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Liberal Union
15	90px	Tommaso Tittoni (1855–1931)	1 December 1919	21 January 1929		rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Liberal Union (Italy)/meta/color;" |	Liberal Union / Italian Liberal Party / Independent	XXV (1919)
						XXVI (1921)
						XXVII (1924)
16		Luigi Federzoni (1878–1967)	29 April 1929	2 March 1939			National Fascist Party	XXVIII (1929)
								XXIX (1934)
17	90px	Giacomo Suardo (1883–1947)	15 March 1939	28 July 1943			National Fascist Party	XXX (No election)
18		Paolo Thaon di Revel (1857–1948)	2 August 1943	20 July 1944			Independent	Abolished Parliament
19	90px	Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta (1873–1962)	20 July 1944	25 June 1946			Independent	National Council

Italian Republic (1946–present)

Parties

• 1948–1994:
  •       Italian Democratic Socialist Party
  •       Italian Liberal Party
  •       Christian Democracy
  •       Italian Republican Party
  •       Independent

• 1994–present:
  •       Forza Italia / The People of Freedom
  •       People's Party
  •       The Daisy / Democratic Party

N.	Portrait	Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Party		Legislature
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
President of the Senate of the Republic
1		Ivanoe Bonomi (1873–1951)	8 May 1948	20 April 1951			Italian Democratic Socialist Party	I (1948)
2		Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959)	28 April 1951	24 June 1952			Italian Liberal Party
3	90px	Giuseppe Paratore (1876–1967)	26 June 1952	24 March 1953			Italian Liberal Party
4	90px	Meuccio Ruini (1877–1970)	25 March 1953	25 June 1953			Independent
5	90px	Cesare Merzagora (1898–1991)	25 June 1953	7 November 1967			Independent	II (1953)
								III (1958)
								IV (1963)
6	90px	Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini (1899–1976)	8 November 1967	4 June 1968			Christian Democracy
7		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	5 June 1968	26 June 1973			Christian Democracy	V (1968)
								VI (1972)
8	90px	Giovanni Spagnolli (1907–1984)	27 June 1973	4 July 1976			Christian Democracy
(7)		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	5 July 1976	1 December 1982			Christian Democracy	VII (1976)
								VIII (1979)
9	90px	Tommaso Morlino (1925–1983)	9 December 1982	6 May 1983			Christian Democracy
10	90px	Vittorino Colombo (1925–1996)	12 May 1983	11 July 1983			Christian Democracy
11	90px	Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010)	12 July 1983	24 June 1985			Christian Democracy	IX (1983)
(7)		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	9 July 1985	17 April 1987			Christian Democracy
12	90px	Giovanni Malagodi (1904–1991)	22 April 1987	1 July 1987			Italian Liberal Party
13		Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994)	2 July 1987	14 April 1994			Italian Republican Party	X (1987)
								XI (1992)
14	90px	Carlo Scognamiglio (1944– )	16 April 1994	8 May 1996			Forza Italia	XII (1994)
15	90px	Nicola Mancino (1931– )	9 May 1996	29 May 2001		style="background:Template:Italian People's Party (1994)/meta/color;" |	Italian People's Party	XIII (1996)
16	90px	Marcello Pera (1943– )	30 May 2001	27 April 2006			Forza Italia	XIV (2001)
17	90px	Franco Marini (1933–2021)	29 April 2006	28 April 2008			The Daisy / Democratic Party	XV (2006)
18	90px	Renato Schifani (1950– )	29 April 2008	14 March 2013			Forza Italia / The People of Freedom	XVI (2008)
19	90px	Pietro Grasso (1945– )	16 March 2013	22 March 2018			Democratic Party	XVII (2013)
20	90px	Elisabetta Casellati (1946– )	24 March 2018	Incumbent			Forza Italia	XVIII (2018)

Timeline

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Italian Republic (1946–present)

See also

• Senate of the Republic (Italy)
• List of presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)