Over the years, professional love expert/relationship counselor Diann Valentine has discovered many Italian men are attracted to African-American women — of whom the U.S. Census Bureau reports 48 percent have never been married.

This led Bravo to team up with Valentine to launch “To Rome For Love,” debuting at 8 p.m. Sunday on the cable network. Two of the six women featured in the”docu-series” (which also includes celebrity chef and recently divorced TV personality Gina Neely) are Chicago native Shay Atkins and Naperville resident Nakita McGraw.