US secretary of state Marco Rubio will travel to Rome this week, a visit reportedly aimed at thawing frosty relations with the Italian government and the Vatican. Rubio will be in the Italian capital on Thursday and Friday, which will also mark the one-year anniversary of the papacy of Pope Leo, the first US-born pontiff. A foreign ministry source confirmed that Rubio will travel to Rome and meet the Vatican’s secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, and Antonio Tajani, Italy’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister. Rubio has asked to meet prime minister Giorgia Meloni, but the request has not yet been granted, the source added.…