| Caciotta (marchigiana) | Italy, Marche | | 15–20 days | Dark ivory; brown-spotted when walnut leaves are used |
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| Caciotta caprina | Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia | | at least 20 days | Clean, thin to fairly thick, straw |
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| Caciotta della Lunigiana | Italy, Toscana | | 4–5 days | Thin, soft, white to pale straw |
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| Caciotta di pecora | Italy, Toscana | | 20–40 days | Thin, soft, smooth, pale straw (deeper with age) |
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| Caciotta dolce | Italy, Toscana | | at least 20 days | Thin, smooth, soft, straw-yellow |
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| Caciotta stagionata | Italy, Toscana | | at least 6 months | Hard, wrinkled, straw-yellow, fairly thick |
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| Caciotta vaccina frentana | Italy, Abruzzo | | 1 h | Thin, porcelain-white when fresh, straw-yellow when aged; basket marks |
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| Caprino a coagulazione presamica | Italy, Lombardia | | 3 days | None (fresh) or bloomy white Penicillium candidum skin (aged) |
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| Caprino al lattice di fico | Italy, Marche | | at least 30 days | Rough, dry; ivory or grey when fresh, hard straw-yellow when aged |
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| Caprino della Val Vigezzo | Italy, Piemonte | | 30 days | Thin, clean or lightly moulded; ivory to grey to reddish-brown depending on the cellar's moulds |
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| Caprino presamico piemontese | Italy, Piemonte | | at least 7 days | Thin, elastic; milk-white to straw, often orange when aged |
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| Caprino vaccino | Italy, Lombardia | | 24 h | None (fresh); very thin white-yellow skin with possible yellow/orange moulds (aged) |
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| Caprino valsesiano | Italy, Piemonte | | up to 15 days | Clean or bloomy; smooth or slightly wrinkled |
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| Casatta di Corteno Golgi | Italy, Lombardia | | 2–5 months | Clean, slightly wrinkled, straw yellow |
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| Casieddo | Italy, Basilicata | | 7 days | None or barely visible; aged: hard, grey-yellow |
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| Caso conzato | Italy, Campania | | 6–12 months | Treated, oily, irregular, herb-coated |
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| Caso di Elva | Italy, Piemonte | | at least 3 days | Moulded, slightly wrinkled; light yellow to reddish-brown; cracks letting natural blueing in |
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| Casoretta | Italy, Lombardia | | at least 30 days | Thin, wrinkled, ivory to straw |
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| Casu friscu | Italy, Sardegna | | up to 7 days | None; white, mould-marked |
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| Casu in filixi | Italy, Sardegna | | at least 2 h | None; milk-white, fern-imprinted |
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| Casu musciu | Italy, Campania | | 15–20 days | Thin, smooth, yellow, soft and moist |
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| Cevrin di Coazze | Italy, Piemonte | | 2.6–3 months | Washed, sparse moulds; reddish to dark brown; hard |
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| Civrin della Val Chiusella | Italy, Piemonte | | at least 10 days | Thin, smooth, whitish-straw with light white mould |
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| Dolcesardo Arborea | Italy, Sardegna | | at least 15 days | None; smooth white surface, not edible |
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| Dolomiti | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Trento | | 15 days | Clean, smooth or lightly ridged, ivory to pale straw |
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| Fior delle Dolomiti | Italy, Veneto | | 15–20 days | Thin, smooth, tender, pale straw yellow |
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| Fiorone della Valsassina | Italy, Lombardia | | 5–6 days | None (fresh); very thin straw-yellow skin (aged) |
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| Formaggella della Val Brembana | Italy, Lombardia | | 25–30 days | Thin, smooth, ivory to straw, darker with age |
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| Formaggella della Val di Scalve | Italy, Lombardia | | 20–30 days | Thin, rough, yellowish, crumbly when young; smoother, darker, light mould with age |
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| Formaggella della Val Seriana | Italy, Lombardia | | 15–20 days | Smooth, thin, white-yellowish, thicker with age |
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| Formaggella della Val Trompia | Italy, Lombardia | | 20–25 days | Thin, fairly smooth, straw yellow; deforms with age |
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| Formaggella della Valcamonica | Italy, Lombardia | | 15–40 days | Light straw, deepening with age |
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| Formaggella di Menconico | Italy, Lombardia | | 15–40 days | Thin, rough, white to ivory |
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| Formaggella di Tremosine | Italy, Lombardia | | at least 40 days | Thin, fairly smooth, straw |
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| Formaggetta (delle Valli Arroscia e Argentina) | Italy, Liguria | | at least 30 days | None and white when fresh; thin, slightly wrinkled from the moulds, ivory to pale straw when aged |
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| Formaggetta (savonese, di Stella, della Valle Stura) | Italy, Liguria | | at least 30 days | None when fresh; thin, slightly wrinkled, ivory to straw when aged |
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| Formaggetta delle Valli del Levante ligure | Italy, Liguria | | 30 days | None when fresh; slightly wrinkled from the baskets; white to brown with age |
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| Formaggio agordino di malga | Italy, Veneto | | at least 2 months | Thin, smooth, cloth-marked; straw yellow to reddish brown |
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| Formaggio Busche | Italy, Veneto | | 30 days | Smooth, thin, soft, white |
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| Formaggio caprino del Cilento | Italy, Campania | | 7–20 days | Thin, basket-marked, white to straw |
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| Formaggio caprino delle Apuane | Italy, Toscana | | 40 days – 2 months | Thin, fairly smooth, whitish-yellow |
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| Formaggio Casato del Garda | Italy, Veneto | | at least 30 days | None (matured in oil) |
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| Formaggio Casel bellunese | Italy, Veneto | | 2–12 months | Thin, almost smooth, straw yellow |
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| Formaggio Cesio | Italy, Veneto | | 15–20 days | None when fresh; very thin, smooth, milk-white when aged |
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| Formaggio Contrin | Italy, Veneto | | 30 min | Thin, rough, white with light grey veins from surface moulds |
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| Formaggio d'Alpe misto | Italy, Lombardia | | 30 days – 3 months | Thin, smooth, paler straw than all-cow cheese |
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| Formaggio d'Alpe semigrasso | Italy, Lombardia | | 2–3 months | Smooth, fairly thick, yellowish |
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| Formaggio del fieno | Italy, Piemonte | | at least 2 months | Thin, clean/treated, straw to hazelnut, with hay residues |
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| Formaggio di Pietracatella | Italy, Molise | | at least 2 months | Natural, slightly wrinkled, straw-yellow, basket marks |
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| Formaggio di Santo Stefano d'Aveto (San Stè) | Italy, Liguria | | at least 2 months | Thin, smooth, straw yellow to brown |
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| Formaggio di Sappada | Italy, Veneto | | at least 2 months | Smooth, thin to slightly thick, straw yellow to light hazelnut |
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| Formaggio duro di latte di pecora, capra e vacca | Italy, Campania | | 2–6 months | Treated, oily, basket-marked, straw to light brown |
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| Formaggio Fagagna | Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia | | 25–40 min | Smooth, straw turning brown with age |
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| Formaggio Fodom | Italy, Veneto | | 2–3 months | Clean, fairly thin, light hazelnut |
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| Formaggio malga bellunese | Italy, Veneto | | 30–35 days | Thin, cloth-marked; straw yellow to darker with characteristic moulds |
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| Formaggio misto pecora fresco dei Berici | Italy, Veneto | | 2 months | Thin, soft, fairly smooth, straw yellow |
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| Formaggio Moesin di Fregona | Italy, Veneto | | 20–25 days | Thin, soft, smooth, straw-ivory |
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| Formaggio Montemagro | Italy, Veneto | | at least 3 months | Thin to slightly thick, fairly hard to hard, straw yellow to reddish |
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| Formaggio morbido del Matese | Italy, Campania | | 10 days – 3 months | Thin, soft, straw with light white mould |
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| Formaggio Morlacco | Italy, Veneto | | 6–15 days | Ridged from the moulds, white to straw yellow; not edible |
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| Formaggio Nevegàl | Italy, Veneto | | 30 days | Thin to almost absent, soft, straw yellow |
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| Formaggio nostrano veronese | Italy, Veneto | | at least 3 months | Smooth, fairly thin, fairly hard; straw yellow to light brown |
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| Formaggio Renàz | Italy, Veneto | | 3 months | Smooth, fairly thin to slightly thick, hard, oily; deep straw to light brown |
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| Formaggio Schiz | Italy, Veneto | | 1 h | None; a very thin skin forms after a few days |
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| Formaggio Tosella | Italy, Veneto | | 15–30 min | None; white, soft surface marked by the moulds |
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| Formaggio Val Seriana | Italy, Lombardia | | 4–6 months | Smooth, straw yellow to dark straw-brown |
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| Formaggio Zumelle | Italy, Veneto | | 40 days | Clean, thin, soft, elastic, straw yellow |
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| Formai de Livign | Italy, Lombardia | | at least 2 months | Thin, soft, smooth, straw; may show slight whitish mould |
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| Fresa | Italy, Sardegna | | 35 min | Thin, intense yellow |
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| Frumagit di Curiglia | Italy, Lombardia | | 24 h – 2 days | None (fresh); very thin skin with white bloom or red-orange bacterial smear (matured) |
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| Furmai nustran | Italy, Veneto | | 30 days | Thin, smooth, soft, straw yellow at 30 d; hardens with age |
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| Gioda | Italy, Piemonte | | at least 2 months | Thin, rough from the cloth, light yellow to dark beige-grey, traces of grey mould |
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| Giuncata vaccina abruzzese | Italy, Abruzzo | | 1 h | None; milk-white, ivory to pale straw if salted; rush marks |
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| Gorwydd Caerphilly | Made at Gorwydd, the family farm in west Wales, until 2014 | Raw milk from a single herd (maker's profile) | 2–4 months | |
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| Hartkäse Alta Badia (Formaggio duro Alta Badia) | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano | | 3.3–12 months | Hard, dry, rustic, amber yellow |
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| Hochpustertaler (Formaggio Alta Pusteria) | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano | | at least 3 months | Inedible, rough, white to dark straw or light brown with age |
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| Hochpustertaler fettreduziert (Alta Pusteria semigrasso) | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano | | at least 2 months | Inedible, thin, fairly soft, light yellow to gold |
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| Innichner (San Candido) | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano | | 42 days | Inedible, thin, smooth, intense straw |
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| Innichner Butterkäse (Caciottina Montanara / Formaggio al burro di San Candido) | Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano | | 21 days | Edible, thin, no cracks, pale straw |
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| Ircano | Italy, Sardegna | | 15–30 days | Clean, thin, white to light straw |
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