We present the first model for argumentation mining for Italian short argumentative texts. We adapted to Italian the software developed by (Peldszus and Stede, 2015) and built a suitable corpus of Italian "microtexts" by semi-automatically translating the original English corpus. Our results are comparable to those of (Peldszus and Stede, 2015), which proves that their model is applicable successfully to languages other than English and German.