Some critics say Mr Renzi has signed a pact with the devil (Mr Berlusconi), perhaps in exchange for some hidden promise of protection, thus rehabilitating a convicted fraudster.
So his international research team of 20, many of them with doctorates in economics, searches constantly for out-of-favour countries with hidden promise.
Like all those who have dreamed of America before, they are seeking the land of hidden promise more than the promise of simply owning the land.
For example, in a 10 of Cups reversed, is its joyous energy blocked, delayed, apparent but not real, real but not apparent, hidden, promised, or in some other way not fully present?
But it is as a Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright that Shepard's contribution has been most significant, leading the New York Times to hail him as the "playwright laureate of the west, consistently, ruthlessly true to his experience of a wilderness where American has always hidden its promise and its dream".
Now say: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you will give me some small object to hide, I promise that the blind man will find it, although I shall not even tell him what he is to look for, and I shall dim the lights, so that if the bandage should slip, he will still be unable to see".
They said that the grievances streaming into his office included unkept merchant promises, hidden costs and conditions and bogus goods.
They ultimately created the Sustainable Dance Club company to develop a blueprint for a greener party place that included what they called "spectaculars" (elements like the no-waste bars that customers could see) as well as hidden elements, like a promise to consider sustainability in purchasing.
In the 1980s and 1990s the true cost of these promises was hidden by a long bull market in equities.
This was not exactly unforeseen: State Budget Solutions (SBS) and the Government Accountability Office GAOO) have been warning states for years about overspending as well as the dangers of ignoring hidden costs, such as promises to future retirees, that are left unaddressed year after year.
Labour accused the Government of deliberately trying to avoid proper scrutiny and hiding his broken promise to cut the cost of politics by releasing the raft of announcements on the final day of Parliament.
