With your language strengths the move over into Italian should be smooth. Why not just books written in really good Italian, with a grammar and a dictionary at hand?
I'd recommend Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio and Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi (The Betrothed), for the excellent Italian, not always easy but you can trust the sources. A more modern writer to try in this way is Cesare Pavese, or maybe (more difficult) Italo Calvino.
Good luck.
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