Leader of Italy no longer with us provided with inspiration (5)
I believe the answer is:
idead
'inspiration' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'leader of italy no longer with us provided with' is the wordplay.
'leader of' says to take the initial letters.
'no longer with us' becomes 'dead' (I've seen this before).
'provided with' says to put letters next to each other.
The first letter of 'italy' is 'i'.
'i'+'dead'='IDEAD'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idead that I've seen before include "full of imagination" , "given imaginative suggestion" , "Supplied with concepts" .)