Sergio Parisse not included in Italy squad for summer tour

Italy coach Conor O'Shea has announced captain Sergio Parisse is not in his 31-man squad for this summer's tour against Scotland, Fiji and Australia.

The Irish coach said he wanted to give Parisse and hooker Leonardo Ghiraldini, flanker Simone Favaro and prop Lorenzo Cittadini time to recover from the 2016-17 season before the November internationals.

O'Shea has named four uncapped players in his squad.

Italy 31-man squad for Summer tour:

Forwards: Pietro Ceccarelli (Zebre Rugby), Simone Ferrari (Benetton Treviso), Andrea Lovotti (Zebre Rugby), Sami Panico (Patar Calvisano), Tiziano Pasquali (Benetton Treviso), Luca Bigi (Benetton Treviso), Ornel Gega (Benetton Treviso), Luhandre Luus (Patar Calvisano), George Fabio Biagi (Zebre Rugby), Dean Budd (Benetton Treviso), Marco Fuser (Benetton Treviso), Federico Ruzza (Zebre Rugby), Andries Van Schalkwyk (Zebre Rugby), Robert Julian Barbieri (Benetton Treviso), Maxime Mbanda' (Zebre Rugby), Francesco Minto (Benetton Treviso), Abraham Jurgen Steyn (Benetton Treviso)

Backs: Edoardo Gori (Benetton Treviso), Tito Tebaldi (Benetton Treviso), Marcello Violi (Zebre Rugby), Tommaso Allan (Benetton Treviso), Carlo Canna (Zebre Rugby), Tommaso Benvenuti (Benetton Treviso), Tommaso Boni (Zebre Rugby), Michele Campagnaro (Exeter Chiefs), Giulio Bisegni (Zebre Rugby), Angelo Esposito (Benetton Treviso), Leonardo Sarto (Glasgow Warriors), Giovanbattista Venditti (Zebre Rugby), Edoardo Padovani (Zebre Rugby), Luca Sperandio (Benetton Treviso)