Operation Scylla (Italian: Operazione Scilla) was the transit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) Capitani Romani-class light cruiser Scipione Africano on the night of 17/18 July 1943, during the Second World War. The cruiser sailed from La Spezia in the Tyrrhenian Sea to Taranto in the Ionian Sea during the Allied invasion of Sicily.