Italy has named it's squad to face England on March 18 in Rome. Prop Salvatore Perugini, lock Giuseppe Lanzi and centre Marco Rivaro all of which played as replacements against Ireland in Dublin, go down to Italy A together with deputy scrum half Giampiero Mazzi.

Up from Italy A to the senior team are prop Andrea Lo Cicero, lock Valter Cristofoletto, flanker Aaron Persico, fly half Andrea Scanavacca, scrum half Matteo Mazzantini and centre Nick Zisti, all part of the Italy A squad defeated 31-3 by Ireland A last Friday in Donnybrook Stade Francais' prop Giampiero De Carli, a try scorer for Italy against Scotland a month ago is back in Italy A after not playing for personal reasons since the Italy- Scotland game.

Italy: Alessandro Troncon (Montferrand), Diego Dominguez (Stade Francais), Massimo Cuttitta (Calvisano), Tino Paoletti (Piacenza) Carlo Orlandi, Andrea Scanavacca (Rovigo), Alessandro Moscardi, Carlo
Checchinato, Andrea Gritti, Wim Visser, Denis Dallan, Giacomo Preo (Treviso), Mauro Bergamasco (Petrarca), Matteo Mazzantini(L'Aquila) Juan Francesio, Aaron Persico (Viadana), Cristian Stoica, Matthew Pini (Narbonne), Luca Martin (Bègles-Bordeaux), Walter Cristofoletto (Mont de Marsan), Andrea Lo Cicero, Nick Zisti(Roma Olimpic), Andrea De Rossi (Livorno), Laurent Travini (Dax).