Count Edgardo Pietro Andrea Sogno Rata del Vallino di Ponzone OMRI[1] (29 December 1915 – 5 August 2000) was an Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.

He contested the June 2, 1946 referendum creating the Republic of Italy, submitting without success numerous appeals before the Corte di Cassazione in the aim of reversing the results of the vote and restoring the monarchy.

He joined the diplomatic service, serving in Buenos Aires, where Juan Peron was head of state, then in Paris, London, Washington DC and, last, as ambassador in Rangoon.

[4] He returned to Italy in 1971, where he founded the Comitati di Resistenza Democratica (Committee of Democratic Resistance), an anti-communist organization of the political center.

[2][5][6] Liberal, monarchist, then admirer of Charles de Gaulle, Edgardo Sogno returned to politics only in 1996, as a candidate to the Italian Senate, in Cuneo, for the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) party founded by Gianfranco Fini.