This presentation intends to outline some reasons why the reception of biosemiotics in Italy has not established a disciplinary field from this perspective. In contemporary Italian semiotics, in schools such as Palermo, Bari, Urbino, Turin, Bologna, where semiotics is a vibrant and constantly developing disciplinary field, there is no courses on biosemiotics. Therefore, an attempt will be made to retrace the historical reasons why biosemiotics is not used in Italy, underlining as main causes: 1) The debate between Eco and Prodi; 2) Paolo Fabbri's methodology and the development of semiotics of the text; 3) The zoosemiotics transformed into philosophy of animality; 4) Cognitive semiotics as an alternative to biosemiotics. From this reconstruction, some unresolved questions will be addressed: what is the future of biosemiotics in Italy? Was it a problem of reception? Of personalities among semioticians? or a strategic move? The purpose of this intervention is to highlight the problems surrounding this research field, highly developed in some countries, and to discuss whether it should be part of the Italian semiotic tradition. By addressing these unresolved questions and engaging in a reflective dialogue, the presentation aims to stimulate further inquiry and foster a more inclusive approach to semiotic scholarship in Italy.