If you are not living in Italy and you would like to get the pension you have to either have worked there or you were born there because there is no other way to get it but to live in Italy is so expensive and working there would be wonderful but I have heard that the pension age has also changed because of the economic crisis.
I think that this latest article may be helpful. Italy's pension reforms: facing the facts The admin can delete the link if it is against forum rules, please advice me of that.