Count Rufo Pompeo Provana del Sabbione (10 April 1816 – 1 January 1884) was an Italian admiral and senator who briefly served as Minister of the Navy in 1867 and 1868.

On 10 July ignoring the armistice agreed two days earlier, he captured four small Austrian merchant units near the Bay of Kotor but had to release them after protests from the Habsburg government.

[8] On 16 October 1859 he was promoted to captain second class and given command of the first-rate frigate San Michele, on board which in September 1860 he took part in the siege of Ancona,[9] earning the officer's cross of the Military Order of Savoy.

Menabrea had held the portfolio himself on an interim basis after the resignation of Federico Pescetto amid accusations of collusion with other Freemasons and with opponents of the disgraced admiral Carlo Pellion di Persano.

[12] He also drafted a bill to create a single institute in Livorno for training Navy officers in the old quarantine hospital, but was opposed by the Ministry of the Interior which wanted to preserve its public health use.