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Agenore Frangipani
Born	(1876-12-04)4 December 1876 Benevento, Kingdom of Italy
Died	6 April 1941(1941-04-06) (aged 64) Addis Ababa, Italian Ethiopia
Allegiance	Kingdom of Italy
Service / branch	Royal Italian Army
Rank	Major General
Battles / wars	Italo-Turkish War World War I Battles of the Isonzo Second Italo-Ethiopian War Spanish Civil War Italian invasion of Albania World War II East African Campaign
Awards	War Cross for Military Valor War Merit Cross Military Order of Savoy Order of the Crown of Italy Colonial Order of the Star of Italy

Agenore Frangipani (Benevento, 4 December 1876 – Addis Ababa, 6 April 1941) was an Italian general and colonial official, and the last Italian governor of Addis Ababa and Scioa.

Biography

Frangipani was born in 1876 to an aristocratic family, the second son of the Marquis of Mileta. He initially enlisted in the Royal Italian Navy, attending the Naval Academy of Livorno for some time, but moved to the Royal Italian Army after some time, attending the Nunziatella Military College in Naples and graduating in 1899 as lieutenant of the Corazzieri.

In 1906 he was promoted to captain, and on the following year he married Countess Cristina Agazzi, member of a noble Lombard family. In 1911 Frangipani fought in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War, and during World War I he fought on the Karst Plateau, being promoted to major in 1917 and to colonel in 1919. In 1923 he joined the National Fascist Party; in the following years he worked for the Ministry of War and served as military attaché in Berlin and Paris until 1930. He also served as official in the colonial administrator in Italy's East African colonies for many years (in 1922 he signed a treaty with Arthur Wallace Skrine, British deputy governor of Kassala province, rectifying the border between Eritrea and Sudan), as well as consul in Ethiopia.

During the second half of the 1930s he fought in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, being promoted to major general in 1936, then in the Spanish Civil War and finally in the conquest of Albania. At the outbreak of World War II he was in Italian East Africa, and on 3 April 1941 he replaced Giuseppe Daodice as governor of Addis Ababa and the Scioa Governorate. He was ordered by the Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Italian East Africa, to surrender Addis Ababa to the advancing British forces without fighting, in order to spare the civilian population; he reluctantly carried out this order on 6 April 1941, but on the same day, feeling dishonored, he committed suicide.

References

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Bibliography

• Goffredo Orlandi Contucci, A.O.I.- AFRICA ORIENTALE ITALIANA - La conquista dell'Impero nel ricordo del tenente Goffredo Orlandi Contucci - Edizioni MyLife, Monte Colombo/Coriano, 2009 ISBN 978-88-6285-100-8

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Main authorities	King & Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III Prime Minister Benito Mussolini List of governors-general of Italian East Africa
Governors	List of governors of the Governorates of Italian East Africa Main colonial governors: Agenore Frangipani; Guglielmo Nasi; Enrico Cerulli; Pietro Gazzera; Luigi Frusci; Alessandro Pirzio Biroli
General History	Italian Ethiopia Amhara Governorate Harar Governorate Galla-Sidamo Governorate Scioa Governorate First Italo-Ethiopian War Abyssinia Crisis Second Italo-Ethiopian War Gondrand massacre Italian invasion of British Somaliland Italian attacks in Kenya Italian tentative to occupy French Somaliland East African Campaign Last stand at Amba Alagi Battle of Gondar Battle of Culqualber Italian guerrilla war in A.O.I. (1941-1943)
Infrastructures	New roads in Italian Ethiopia Linea aerea dell'Impero Ivo Olivetti aeroporto Italian colonial railways Ethio-Djibouti Railways Addis Ababa Stadium
Related articles	Italian Ethiopians Addis Abeba under Italian rule Imperial Italy Italian East Africa 40th Infantry Division Cacciatori d'Africa Italian East African lira Postage stamps and postal history of Italian East Africa Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia
Related personalities	Prince Amedeo d'Aosta Rodolfo Graziani Tito Minniti Luciano Violante Elisa Angela Meneguzzi Carla Maria Puccini Rosa Dainelli Amedeo Guillet
Colonial troops	Royal Corps of Colonial Troops Italian African Police Armed Forces of Italian East Africa Bands Dubats

• 1876 births
• 1941 deaths
• Italian Army generals
• Italian military personnel of World War I
• Italian military personnel of World War II
• Italian military personnel of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
• Italian military personnel of the Italo-Turkish War
• Italian colonial governors and administrators
• 1941 suicides
• Suicides in Ethiopia
• Italian military personnel who died by suicide