Three players who missed the Test series against the Springboks in July return to the Italy squad for three November Tests.
Star fullback/winger Ange Capuozzo, flyhalf Paolo Garbisi and flank Michele Lamaro were included in a 34-man squad that sprang no surprises.
Toulouse back Capuozzo makes his return from a broken fibula sustained in June.
Toulon playmaker Garbisi, who missed the July tour of South Africa that saw Italy lose twice to the Springboks (42-24 and 45-0), is also back along with Perpignan’s Tommaso Allan, Treviso’s Lamaro and Bordeaux-Begles scrumhalf Martin Page-Relo.
There were also call-ups for uncapped 19-year-olds Edoardo Todaro, a centre with Northampton, and Enoch Opoku Gyamfi, a lock currently on Bath’s books.
Italy play Australia in Udine on 8 November before taking on the Boks a week later in Turin and finishing up against Chile in Genoa on 22 November.
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Italy squad:
Forwards – Lorenzo Cannone (Benetton), Niccolo Cannone (Benetton), Tommaso Di Bartolomeo (Zebre), Pablo Dimcheff (Colomiers), Riccardo Favretto (Benetton), Simone Ferrari (Benetton), Danilo Fischetti (Northampton), Muhamed Hasa (Zebre), Alessandro Izekor (Benetton), Michele Lamaro (Benetton), Sebastian Negri (Benetton), Giacomo Nicotera (Stade Francais), Enoch Opoku Gyamfi (Bath), Marco Riccioni (Saracens), Federico Ruzza (Benetton), Mirco Spagnolo (Benetton), Ross Vintcent (Exeter), Andrea Zambonin (Exeter), Manuel Zuliani (Benetton).
Backs – Tommaso Allan (Perpignan), Juan Ignacio Brex (Toulon), Ange Capuozzo (Toulouse), Giacomo Da Re (Zebre), Alessandro Garbisi (Benetton), Paolo Garbisi (Toulon), Monty Ioane (Lyon), Louis Lynagh (Benetton), Leonardo Marin (Benetton), Damiano Mazza (Zebre), Tommaso Menoncello (Benetton), Martin Page-Relo (Bordeaux-Begles), Lorenzo Pani (Zebre), Edoardo Todaro (Northampton), Stephen Varney (Exeter)
– AFP
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