He has picked fights with the Catholic Church, the Italian and international press and the European Union, but Silvio Berlusconi now risks making an enemy of an even more formidable foe - his closest political ally.
The flamboyant prime minister, who was recently accused of having sex with half a dozen call girls and starlets at his palazzo in Rome, is embroiled in a damaging feud with the dapper Gianfranco Fini, his most powerful coalition partner.
The public row has added to the sense of crisis surrounding his centre-right government and intensified speculation that, after 15 years at the forefront of Italian politics, his iron grip may be fatally weakening.
A summer of lurid sex scandals, in which the permatanned prime minister was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an 18-year-old actress and of sleeping with a prostitute, appears to be giving way to an autumn of antagonism with both friend and foe alike.
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