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List of nicknames of prime ministers of Italy

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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 (Il Gran Tessitore)^[1]

Bettino Ricasoli

Full name: Bettino Ricasoli

Iron Baron (Barone di Ferro)^[2]

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora

Full name: Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora

Bomber of the People (Cannoneggiatore del Popolo)^[3]

Agostino Depretis

Full name: Agostino Depretis

Janus Bifrons (Giano Bifronte)^[4]
Chameleon (Camaleonte)^[5]

Francesco Crispi

Full name: Francesco Crispi

The Loner (Il Solitario)^[6]

Giovanni Giolitti

Full name: Giovanni Giolitti

Minister of Underworld (Ministro della Malavita)^[7]
The Man of Dronero (L'Uomo di Dronero)^[8]

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Full name: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

The President of Victory (Il Presidente della Vittoria)^[9]

Benito Mussolini

Full name: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini

Duce
Big Head (Il Testone)
Bald Head (Crapa Pelada, in Lombard language)^[10]
The Jaw (Il Mascella)^[11]
He (Lui)
The Stinker (Er puzzone, in Romanesco dialect)^[12]

Alcide De Gasperi

Full name: Alcide De Gasperi

Cold polenta (Polenta fredda)^[13]

Amintore Fanfani

Full name: Amintore Fanfani

Purebred Horse (Cavallo di Razza)^[14]
Pony^[15]
There he is again (Rieccolo)^[16]

Mario Scelba

Full name: Mario Scelba

Iron Sicilian (Siciliano di Ferro)^[17]

Aldo Moro

Full name: Aldo Moro

Doctor Divago (Dottor Divago)^[18] – A pun about Doctor Zhivago.
Purebred Horse (Cavallo di Razza)^[19]

Mariano Rumor

Full name: Mariano Rumor

Pious Mariano (Pio Mariano)^[20]

Giulio Andreotti

Full name: Giulio Andreotti

Divus Julius (Divo Giulio)^[21]
The Hunchback (Il Gobbo)^[22]
Beelzebub (Belzebù)^[23]
Uncle Giulio (Zio Giulio)^[24]
The Sphinx (La Sfinge)^[25]
The Black Pope (Il Papa Nero)^[26]
The Fox (La Volpe)^[27]
Moloch^[28]
The Eternity (L’Eternità)

Francesco Cossiga

Full name: Francesco Cossiga

Koiga^[29]
The Pickaxe-wielder (Il Picconatore)^[30]

Arnaldo Forlani

Full name: Arnaldo Forlani

Wererabbit (Coniglio Mannaro)^[31]
The Firefighter (Il Pompiere)^[32]

Bettino Craxi

Full name: Benedetto Craxi

The Big Boar (Il Cinghialone)^[33]

Giuliano Amato

Full name: Giuliano Amato

Doctor Subtilis (Dottor Sottile)^[34]

Silvio Berlusconi

Full name: Silvio Berlusconi

The Knight (Il Cavaliere)
The Caiman (Il Caimano)
Daddy (Papi)
His Broadcasting (Sua Emittenza) – A pun about Sua Eminenza, "His Eminence".
The Dwarf (Il Nano)
Berlusca
B.

Lamberto Dini

Full name: Lamberto Dini

The Toad (Il Rospo)^[35]

Romano Prodi

Full name: Romano Prodi

The Professor (Il Professore)
Mortadella

Massimo D'Alema

Full name: Massimo D'Alema

Little moustache (Baffino)^[36]
Leader Maximo^[37]

Mario Monti

Full name: Mario Monti

Rigor Montis^[38]

Matteo Renzi

Full name: Matteo Renzi

The Scrapper (Il Rottamatore)^[39]
Kraken^[40]
The Bomb (Il Bomba)^[41]
Renzie^[42]
Renzusconi^[43]

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)^[44]

Mario Draghi

Full name: Mario Draghi

Super Mario^[45]

Giorgia Meloni

Full name: Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia^[46]
The Suburbanite (La Borgatara)
The Fishwife (La Pesciarola)

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