Apparently, Italian diplomats make no such judgments about American winemakers.

Over several bottles of wine, he tells them stories about his sadistic father who was an Italian diplomat.

"We are on the verge of revolutionary change," an Italian diplomat said, "yet most of the world doesn't seem to realize it."

Italian diplomats decided to take advantage of the situation to obtain a favourable peace deal.

"She called her gallery the Connoisseur because my father, who was an Italian diplomat, didn't think it appropriate for a shop to have her name."

The Italian diplomat poked through the tissue-wrapped items, his cufflinks winking.

With a right-wing Italian diplomat as a father, he lived in Central America and other countries during his childhood.

Bastianini's activities brought him into conflict with Italian diplomats, who felt that his movement was overtly politicising their work.

The game was originally introduced by a group of Italian diplomats in the 1960s and 70s.