Italy competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

340 competitors, 236 men and 104 women, took part in 172 events in 27 sports.

[1] The Italian men received unfortunate rankings in the open round, and both Andrea Parenti and Matteo Bisiani quickly found themselves losing to eventual silver medallist Magnus Petersson, in the second and third rounds, respectively.

Michele Frangilli advanced to the quarterfinal before facing eventual gold medallist Justin Huish.

They improved slightly, upon their seventh-place finish of four years earlier by taking the middle place in a three-way tie for fifth through seventh places.