The Congress of Verona meets at Verona on October 20, 1822, as part of the series of international conferences or congresses that had opened with the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, which had instituted the Concert of Europe at the close of the Napoleonic Wars.

The Quintuple Alliance is represented by the following persons: Russia: Emperor Alexander I and Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (minister of foreign affairs). Count George Mocenigo (Ambassador of Russia in Torino), is also present; Austria: Prince Metternich; Prussia: Prince Hardenberg and Count Christian Gunther von Bernstorff; France: The duc de Montmorency-Laval (minister of Foreign Affairs) and François-René de Chateaubriand; United Kingdom: The Duke of Wellington, who is taking the place of Viscount Castlereagh after his suicide on the eve of the congress.