But the temptation was too great to resist for some Italian papers, which reported the news in front-page articles.
I saw their pictures together in the Italian papers on Monday morning-somehow the press found out about it.
The story was big across Europe, especially in the Italian papers, which ran it on their front pages.
Over the past couple of weeks the Italian papers have served up ever changing headlines.
The Italian papers reported vast traffic congestion in the peninsula and 38 fatalities on the roads.
He acted as a correspondent for the Italian socialist paper, Avanti!
The key thing that we saw yesterday was that Italian paper still commands a maturity premium.
The Italian papers, by contrast, generally pronounced the negotiations a failure.
He took from his pocket-book a cutting from an Italian paper, which he handed to me.
Most Italian papers carried the first photograph large; some gave it as much as two-thirds of the page.