The Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity ( ) was founded as a national order by the first President of the Italian Republic, Enrico De Nicola, in 1947, to recognise civilian and military expatriates or foreigners who made an outstanding contribution to the reconstruction of Italy after World War II.

In 2011, the order was reformed as the Order of the Star of Italy by the 11th President, Giorgio Napolitano. The emphasis of the reformed award was shifted from post-war reconstruction to the preservation and promotion of national prestige abroad, promoting friendly relations and co-operation with other countries and ties with Italy.

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1947–2011)

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

The insignia, modified in 2001, bore the inscription Solidarietà Italiana encircling a depiction of the Good Samaritan. The order is bestowed by decree of the President of the Republic, head of the order, on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

The three degrees with corresponding ribbons were as follows:

The Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity was worn as follows:

Recipients

Carlo Ancelotti

Francesco Calabro

Ebba Atterbom

Teodor Baconschi

Mario Biaggi

Boyko Borisov

Eliana Bórmida

Everett Francis Briggs

Paata Burchuladze

Charlene, Princess of Monaco

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Domenick Cocco

Francesco Cossiga

Ritu Dalmia

Dan Daniel

Jatin Das

James del Piano

John Dickie

Moira Lenore Dynon - June 5, 1967

Irena Eris

Bernard Evans

Linda Fabiani

Genevieve Fiore

Foster Furcolo

Gaetano Gagliano

Wolfgang Haas

Grace Kelly

Anthony Lacavera

Gabriel Liiceanu

Lawrence Lotito

Fabio Luisi

Yuri Lyubimov

Mauricio Macri

Henry Mavrodin

Íñigo Méndez de Vigo

Amina Mohamed

Manuel Monteiro de Castro

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Hidetoshi Nakata

Mariana Nicolesco

Andrei Oișteanu

George Paciullo

Costanza Pascolato

Solomon Passy

Michel Pastor

Drew Pearson

Andrei Pleșu

Victor Ponta

Robert D. Putnam

Silvio Scionti

Giovanni Scognamillo

Shim Hwa-jin

Andriy Shevchenko

Frank Sinatra

James S. Snyder

Elisabeth Söderström

George Sperti

Jean Tennyson

Alfa Tofft

Zeynep Karahan Uslu

Radu Varia

See also

List of Italian orders of knighthood

Order of the Crown of Italy

References

External links

Presidenza della Repubblica - Le Onorificenze- Ordine della Stella d'Italia

Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of the

Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of the

1947 establishments in Italy

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