Dente Italiano (German: Italienische Platte) (2220 m) is one of the ridges of the Pasubio summit highlands in the Vicentine Alps.
It was named so during World War I because it represented the front line at the highest part of the massif; while on the Austro-Hungarian side was the Austrian Dente.
Dente Italiano, at the beginning of World War I, became from the earliest days a strong point of the Royal Army on the Pasubio, occupied in the initial Austrian retreat to fortify the defense lines.
However, during the Strafexpedition, the Habsburg Army advanced to the point of undermining Cima Palon, settling in early summer 1916 on the line between the Denti.
[5] For this reason, a good part of the Italian garrison had already abandoned the Dente when the Austro-Hungarian mine exploded, and the number of casualties was small.