There are also returns for centre/winger Roberto Pedrazzi and flanker Josh Sole in the 30-man squad, both of whom were missing when the team met in Ferrara earlier this month.

Pedrazzi, who plays for Arix Viadana, has won eight caps for the Azzurri while his club-mate Sole has represented Italy on one occasion.

Italy squad: Matteo Barbini (Benetton Treviso), Mauro Bergamasco (Stade Francais), Valerio Bernabo (Ghial Calvisano), Marco Bortolami (Narbonne), Gonzalo Canale (Clermont Ferrand), Martin Castrogiovanni (Ghial Calvisano), Carlo Antonio Del Fava (Bourgoin), Carlo Festuccia (SKG Gran Rugby), Paul Griffen (Ghial Calvisano), Andrea Lo Cicero (Conad L'Aquila), Antonio Mannato (SKG Gran Rugby), Carlos Nieto (Arix Viadana), Ludovico Nitoglia (Ghial Calvisano), Fabio Ongaro (Benetton Treviso), Samuele Pace (Arix Viadana), Sergio Parisse (Stade Francais), Antonio Pavanello (Benetton Treviso), Roberto Pedrazzi (Arix Viadana), Aaron Ronald Persico (Agen), Salvatore Perugini (Ghial Calvisano), Ramiro Pez (Perpignan), Matteo Pratichetti (Ghial Calvisano), Kaine Paul Robertson (Arix Viadana), Andrea Scannavacca (Adriatic LNG Rovigo), Josh Sole (Arix Viadana), Alessandro Stoica (Montpellier), Pietro Travagli (Arix Viadana), Alessandro Troncon (Benetton Treviso), Maurizio Zaffiri (Ghial Calvisano), Alessandro Zanni (Ghial Calvisano).