I'm Italian, too, and of course I love Italy so much.
It hurts to see how Italy's current decline is ruining so many beautiful things that bright, smart and hard-working people have built over the course of many centuries.
I would probably start with "computer architecture" and "design of programming languages" courses, after that I would ready to learn assembly (x86_64, arm, MIPS - ATT/Intel) and C.
After learning perfectly how a computer works "under the hood" I could dedicate myself to refining my knowledge.
The mug hit the wall on 2000-07-18, which means there was less than 5 months of Perl 6 history in the 20th century. Apocalypse 1 didn't even come out until 2001.