In ancient times people were allied to their city than country, because nationalism or nationhood didn’t exist by that time.
Present day Italians are descendants of Ancient Roman Empire which controlled much of the world that day. The Roman Kingdom, also known as Roman Monarch, was a territory ratter than country. So speaking of ancient times, yes Romans (Ar-Rum in Arabic - chapter 30) were mentioned in Quran. A whole chapter was revealed when believers were sad after the defeat of Romans (Byzantine) in Jerusalem by Persians (Sasanian Empire). This defeat happened around 613/614 AD and Quran foretold about their future win which will happen in few years, which indeed happened.
As Romans are present day Italians, so you can say there were mentioned but not using their present day identity as Italian ratter their ancient identity as Roman.
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