Federico Lunardi (7 December 1880 – 9 November 1954) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, serving also in the Roman Curia.
In 1916 he started his diplomatic career when he was put in charge of the Apostolic nunciature of Havana, a position which he kept until 1920.
In Brasil, Lunardi arrives at the peak of his career when, on November 15, 1936, Pope Pius XI names him Apostolic Nuncio and titular archbishop of Side..[1][2] In Bolivia (1936-1938), he studied and researched the city of Tiahuanaco and collected many archeological finds, which are now in the Lunardi Collections.
In Honduras he travels and often stops at Copàn, a maya cultural site, where he takes part in conferences and collects archeological finds.
In 1948, he goes back to Rome, where he is assigned to the Secretariat of State, however only an year later he leaves for Asunción, in Paraguay (1949-1954).