Hi,
the situation in Italy is similar to the previous post. Unfortunately, only to the first part of the previous post: cycling is a sport training, and only few bikers are cycle travellers; but Italy has no plan to increase use of bicycle, and I think we'll not have infrastructures like German ones in the next 20 years.
Exception is the Trentino Alto Adige region, which has very long cycle paths, with excellent surface, and is working continuously to increase the cycle net too. So tourism in Trentino Alto Adige increased a lot, along cycle paths; but other regions of Italy are actually blind.
Anyway a great forum of bike travelling was born in the last times; so some hundreds of travellers are, surprisingly, talking about.
We could be an interesting place for bicycle touring. We could have art, nature, sun and friendship. The hope is that a miracle will come.