Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte will hold talks in Rome on Wednesday with France's president Emmanuel Macron, Conte's office said in a statement.
The two leaders are expected to hold a joint press conference after their meeting which is scheduled for 8pm local time.
The last bilateral summit between Italy and France was in 2017 and it is understood the two leaders may agree to organise a new one during their talks in Rome.
Conte's new pro-European coalition of the centre-left Democratic Party, the grassroots 5-Star Movement and the leftwing Free and Equal Party took full powers last week after winning parliamentary confidence votes.
Soon after the coalition was sworn in on 5 September, France's foreign minister Yves Le Drian wrote to his new Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio, saying he hoped to see "more constructive" ties between their countries.
In February, France withdrew its ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, for a week amid the biggest diplomatic rift since World War II between the two traditionally close allies.
Masset's recall came shortly after Di Maio, who is 5-Star's leader, met members of France’s Yellow Vest movement, which has mounted a sometimes violent campaign against Macron’s reform programme.
Paris also criticised "baseless" attacks by Di Maio and by rightwing League leader Matteo Salvini aimed at Macron and his government, mostly over migration policy, during the previous populist coalition government.
