Of the 60 prime ministers, eight served more than 5 years, while seventeen served less than a year.
Benito Mussolini was the longest-serving head of government, having settled a dictatorship and
ruled the country for a record of 20 years and 267 days;
Tommaso Tittoni was the shortest-serving prime minister, having governed for 16 days only in 1905. The longest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic was
Silvio Berlusconi, who held the position for more than nine years between 1994 and 2011, while the shortest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic was
Fernando Tambroni, who governed for 123 days in 1960. ==List of office holders==