The wily, enigmatic former power broker, whose now defunct party governed Italy throughout the cold war, is not yet entirely in the clear.

We want to govern Italy.

The party became one of the six members of the National Liberation Committee which governed Italy during the war against Fascism from 1944 to 1946.

Mr. Goria will be the youngest Prime Minister to govern postwar Italy.

Mr. Rutelli was hoping to be the fifth liberal to govern Italy since 1996.

Belisarius was sent to face the Persians and therefore left John, a Byzantine officer, to govern Italy temporarily.

Whatever happens, political commentators said, it was likely that the five-party coalition that has governed Italy through most of the 1980's would remain intact for now.

He might well have said that when it came down to it, governing Italy was not as difficult.

In the 1st and 2nd centuries, the central government sent out around 160 officials each year to govern outside Italy.

Before the World Wars the Liberals were the political establishment that governed Italy for decades.