The article consists in a contrastive presentation of the functions of clitic pronouns in the Accusative and Dative in Italian and in Romanian. It basically deals with clitic doubling, i.e. the double occurrence of the direct object complement and the indirect object complement. The clitic doubling of the direct object complement and the indirect object complement is an important issue with teachers of Italian to Romanian students and with teachers of Romanian to Italian students. All occurrences should get equal attention: those when clitic doubling is obligatory, when it is optional or when it is blocked