It's from way back in 1975 before the EU decided on a standardized categorization such as we have had in the USA for quite some time.
Your personal experience has nothing whatsoever to do with Italian universities then or now.
The "translation" of the terms in the degrees means nothing ~ they are IDEOMATIC EXPRESSIONS and have to be dealt with as a whole, and during the period the degrees were issued.
Frankly, the Internet hasn't been a lot of help in this ~ and I am surprised ~ totally flabbergasted in fact ~ that any Italian university could actually be teaching anybody about nuclear physics.
Quick, someone get on the intertubes and find out if our new engineer, Andrea Rossi knows what he is talking about or just has a new device to make Picard's Earl Gray.
From hospital intercom:
Muawiyah, time for your hourly ECT.
Many thanks to Dr. Demento.
Then neither do yours from post 60 yet you don't even see the dichotomy.
I love the snooty, dare I say pretentious language about how students that didn't take fifty languages have nothing on you.
Did you, sometime in the past, have your Corpus callosum severed? You appear to suffer from a split brain, among myriad other issues...
I find it amazing how you are an expert on every subject there is, impressive and you learned it while you sorted mail for forty years. You really ought to thank Google and Wiki.