This is a list of all modern cruisers built by Italy, starting from the 1880s.
Protected cruisers
(1883) - Sold 1920
(1885) - Sold 1921
(1886) - Sold 1911
(1886) - Sold 1907
(1888) - Sold 1909
(1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
(1888) - Sold 1920
(1891) - Sold to Haiti 1911 and renamed Consul Gostrück, BU 1913
(1890) - Sold 1920
(1891) - Sank 1918
(1893) - Sold 1921
(1893) - Transformed to seaplane tender 1915, Stricken 1921, Sold 1923
(1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone
(1894) - Stricken 1924
(1912) - Built for the Ottoman Empire as Drama. Seized by Italy 1911, BU 1937
(1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
(1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
(1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
(1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, Refloated 1920, BU 1921
(1914) - Stricken 1937
Torpedo cruisers
(1876) (1886)
(1888) (1889) (1889) (1890)
(1899) - Stricken 1923
(1899) - Stricken 1920, BU
Scout cruisers
Aquila-class
Aquila
Sparviero
Nibbio
Falco
Light cruisers
Taranto (1911, ex-German Strassburg) - scuttled 1943, sunk 1943 & 1944, BU 1946 or later Bari (1914, ex-German Pillau) - Sunk 1943, BU 1948 Brindisi (ex-Austrian ) - Stricken 1937, BU Venezia (ex-Austrian ) - Stricken 1937, BU Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - Stricken 1937, BU
(1930) - Sunk 1941
(1930) - Sunk 1941
(1930) - Sunk 1940
(1930) - Sunk 1942
(1931) - BU 1950s
(1932) - Sunk 1941
(1934) - BU 1960s
(1934) - Sunk 1942
(1934) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1949, renamed first Stalingrad, than Kerch
(1935) - Transferred to Greece 1951, renamed Elli
(1936) - BU 1961 or later
(1936) - BU 1970s
(Only those units marked * were completed) Attilio Regolo* (1940) - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Chateaurenault Scipione Africano* (1941) - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Guichen Pompeo Magno* (1941) - Renamed San Giorgio, rebuilt as large destroyer 1951-55, BU 1980 Ulpio Traiano (1942) - Torpedoed 1943 Ottaviano Augusto (1942) - Sunk 1943 Cornelio Silla (1941) - Sunk 1944 Claudio Druso (-) - BU Caio Mario (1941) - Scuttled 1943/44 Paolo Emilio (-) - BU Vipsania Agrippa (-) - BU Giulio Germanico (1941) - Renamed San Marco, rebuilt as large destroyer 1951-55, BU 1971/80 Claudio Tiberio (-) (not completed) Etna (1942) - Scuttled 1943, Refloated, BU postwar Vesuvio (1941) - Scuttled 1943, Refloated, BU postwar Cattaro (ex-Yugoslav Dalmacija, captured 1941, ex-German Niobe, purchased 1924) - Torpedoed 1943 FR 11 (ex-French Jean de Vienne, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944 FR 12 (ex-French La Galissonniere, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
Armored cruisers
(1892) - Sold for BU 1922
(1895) - Stricken 1920
(1896) - Stricken 1920
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1895) - To Argentina as General Garibaldi, BU 1935
Varese (1896) - To Argentina as General San Martin, BU 1935
Varese (1897) - To Argentina as General Belgrano, BU 1948
Giuseppe Garibaldi (c. 1896) - To Spain as 1897, sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898 Giuseppe Garibaldi (1897) - To Argentina as General Pueyrredon, removed 1954 (1899) (1899) (1902) Mitra (1902) - To Argentina as Bernardino Rivadavia - To Japan as , sunk 1945 San Rocco (1903) - To Argentina as Mariano Moreno - To Japan as , sunk 1942