Upon being appointed as a consular officer, having passed the competitive examination for entry into the diplomatic service, he was assigned to
Alexandria,
Egypt, by order of 27 March 1911. Starting from May 1911, he operated under the services of the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 26 May 1912, he was promoted to second-class consul and, in July 1912, he held the position of secretary to the Italian delegate at the Italian-Argentine health conference. On 16 February 1913, he was assigned to Smyrna (now
İzmir), under the
Ottoman Empire, with consular duties and, in December of the same year, to
Aydın. Then, in 1914, he returned to Smyrna. In July 1914, he was promoted to first-class consul and, from 1 October 1915, he was assigned to
Nice, France. Vice-Consul in Smyrna in 1918–1919, he was then secretary of the Italian delegation to the
Lausanne Conference (in 1922–1923) and, promoted to secretary of
legation, and later assigned to the Directorate General of Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he worked until he was assigned to missions abroad once again. Starting from 28 September 1934, having been promoted to the title of
extraordinary envoy and minister
plenipotentiary he was assigned to represent the Kingdom of Italy within the
Kingdom of Albania, and later on, starting from 7 August 1936, he was assigned the same role of representation within the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His last assigned diplomatic role lasted from 1940 to 1946, in which he was the ambassador of Italy in the
Japanese Empire. He was interned by the Japanese following 8 September 1943, right before the Japanese-Italian War. After the war Indelli returned to Italy, where he retired on 1 June 1947 after 36 years of diplomatic service. == Bibliography ==