Franco Bounous

Franco Bounous
Italian Ambassador to Cyprus
In office 9 June 1965 – 29 September 1969
Preceded by	Mario Battisti
Succeeded by	Alessandro Capece Minutolo di Bugnano
Italian Ambassador to Pakistan
In office 3 October 1969[1] – 15 March 1973
Preceded by	Ezio Mizzan
Succeeded by	Oberto Fabiani
Personal details
Died	27 April 1987
Nationality	Italian
Spouse	Alba de Céspedes y Bertini ​ ​ (m. 1945)​ [2]
Awards	Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Franco Bounous (died 27 April 1987) was an Italian diplomat.

Bounous was the 3rd Italian Ambassador to Cyprus.^[3][4] Later, he became the 10th Italian Ambassador to Pakistan.^[5]

On 18 April 1945, he married Italian writer Alba de Céspedes y Bertini.^[6] From a letter written by De Céspedes in 1958, it can be evinced that the two had decided to split, due to her inability, due to her professional career, to follow Bounous around the world.^[7] Eventually, however, the two stayed together until Bounous' death in 1987.^[8]

Bounous was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the Italian State on 27 December 1966.^[9]

He died on 27 April 1987.^[10]

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
• Foreign relations of Italy

References

1. "Storia". Repubblica Italiana. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
2. Zancan, Marina, ed. (2001). Alba de Céspedes. Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori. p. 112. ISBN 9788885938144.
3. "19,30: Dott. Franco BOUNOUS, Ambasciatore d'Italia a Nicosia: visita di dovere". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
4. Kompass Italia. Etas Periodici. 1969. pp. 2–84.
5. Annuario ufficiale delle forze armate della repubblica italiana. Parte 2, Personale militare delle marina. Istituto poligrafico dello Stato. 1970. p. LXXII.
6. "Alba de Céspedes". Repubblica. 29 September 2001. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
7. Andreoni, Annalisa (2023). "Il «Diario di una scrittrice»:Alba de Céspedes e la collaborazionea «Epoca» tra il 1958 e il 1960". Griseldaonline. 21 (2): 176. doi:10.6092/issn.1721-4777/15451. ISSN 1721-4777.
8. "Fuori dagli schemi: Vite da romanzo di grandi scrittrici" (PDF). Biblioteca N. Ginzburg. 8 March 2012.
9. "Bounous Sig. Franco". Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
10. Spera, Lucinda (2016). Un gran debito di mente e di cuore Il carteggio inedito tra Alba de Céspedes e Libero de Libero (1944-1977). Franco Angeli Edizioni. p. 37. ISBN 9788891747419.