If you want to make the keymap permanent, one option is to compile the keymap into your kernel. After you've run make menuconfig, just before you run make, run this command
Code:
loadkeys -m /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/it.map.gz > drivers/char/defkeymap.c
There are 2 other maps you could try, it2.map.gz and it-ibm.map.gz