Birds circling on rising from an Italian city (7)
I believe the answer is:
genoese
'from an italian city' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'birds circling on rising' is the wordplay.
'birds' becomes 'geese' (goose is a kind of bird).
'circling' means one lot of letters goes inside another (circling can mean going around or containing).
'rising' is a reversal indicator (going up in a down clue).
'on' in reverse letter order is 'no'.
'geese' placed around 'no' is 'GENOESE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for genoese that I've seen before include "From an Italian port" , "from northern Italy" , "Coming from the birthplace of Christopher Columbus" , "from Italian city" , "people like Columbus" .)