Sagittario (pennant number F 565) is the second ship of the Lupo-class frigates of the Italian Navy.

It is named after José Quiñones Gonzales, a Peruvian pilot who was a hero of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War who sacrificed himself to destroy an enemy position.

The ship was laid down on 4 February 1976, was launched on 22 June 1977 by the shipyard Riva Trigoso and commissioned in the Italian Navy on 18 November 1977.

For its commissioning process, Quiñones sailed from the port of La Spezia in the Mediterranean Sea, across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, and south to its base in Callao where it arrived on 22 January 2007.

The ship has often performed in multi-national military exercises beside the United States Navy and other regional partners.