Tittoni
TOMMASO, an Italian statesman and diplomat, born in Rome in 1854. He received his education at the universities of Rome and Oxford and entered politics. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1886, and in 1897 was appointed prefect of Naples, and a year later became a Senator. In 1903-1906 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, after a brief interval, returned TOMMASO TITTONI to the position which he held till 1910.
In that year he went to Paris as ambassador. He has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague since 1912. He continued as Italian ambassador in France during the great war till 1916, playing no small TITTONI part in the negotiations which brought Italy into the war on the side of the Allies. In 1916 he became Minister of State, and at the conclusion of the war in 1918 took part in the peace negotiations. His works include: "Sei anni di Politica Estera" (published in 1912 and later translated as "Italy's Foreign and Colonial Policy") (mostly discourses); "The Responsibility of the War."