The Italian Open is set for a grandstand finish with four players sharing the lead after 54 holes at Adriatic Golf Club Cervia.
Sebastian Friedrichsen, Antoine Rozner, Shubhankar Sharma and Marcel Siem will enter the final round at 10 under but with 16 players within three shots of the lead, it is all to play for in Ravenna.
Frenchman Rozner made the cut on the number with a birdie on the last on day two but made a stunning surge through the field as he posted a new course record and matched the lowest round of the his DP World Tour career with a 62 to take the lead.
He had finished long before the final groups got under way and while it took some time for anyone to reel him in, he ended the day as part of a leading logjam.
German Siem carded a 66 to join him before India’s Sharma completed a 67 and Dane Friedrichsen signed for a 68 to make it a four-way tie, one shot clear of Spaniard Adrian Otaegui.
Home favourite De Leo, Swiss Joel Girrbach and England’s Andrew Wilson were then two shots off the lead, with 12 countries represented in the top 16.
South Africa’s Brandon Stone was at six under after carding 72, with countrymen Dylan Frittelli and Pieter Moolman a further shot behind after each shooting 69.
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– Edited report from DP World Tour website
