Enrico Tellini was born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in the province of Lucca in Tuscany.
In 1923, Tellini was part of an Italian delegation sent by the League of Nations to survey the disputed border between Greece and Albania.
[6][7][8] The Greek government denied responsibility and blamed Albanian bandits in the area.
[9] Benito Mussolini demanded 50 million lira in reparations from Greece and the execution of the assassins.
[10][11] Reginald Leeper, the British ambassador at Athens in 1945, in a letter to the British Foreign Secretary in April 1945 mentioned that the Greeks that lived in Albania blame Cham Albanians for the murder of Tellini.