Short story by Oscar in Italian, perhaps involving politician’s reverie (13)
I believe the answer is:
contemplation
'politician's reverie' is the definition.
'contemplation' can be an answer for 'reverie' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'politician's' bit.
'short story by oscar in italian perhaps' is the wordplay.
'short story' becomes 'conte' (I've seen this before).
'by' becomes 'mp' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'italian perhaps' becomes 'Latin' (italian is a kind of Latin).
'o' inserted into 'latin' is 'lation'.
'conte'+'mp'+'lation'='CONTEMPLATION'
'involving' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for contemplation that I've seen before include "Deliberation" , "Attentive thought" , "Thoughtfulness" , "Survey" , "Reflective thought" .)