Overhaulin' - Is it true that Italians drove on the right for many years? And so made only right hand drive cars?

Is it true that Italians drove on the right for many years? And so made only right hand drive cars?

Heard this from a Lancia owner at the National Classic Car Show today.Then again. with Italians, maybe it was just hard to tell?

The Italians drove on the right from the 1920's but continued to manufacture RH drive cars. Lancia didn't make a LH drive car until the 1960's. This is perhaps the most useless piece of information I have discovered on YA.
Actually, for whatever reason, Lancia was the last Italian manufacturer making their cars with right hand drive, and stubbornly made their cars with right hand drive until 1956, not the 1960s. However, only parts of Italy had traffic on the left side of the road, and that changed after Mussolini came to power in 1922. All traffic was then on the right hand side of the road by law.
Having driven in Italy, I can say that it just doesn't seem to make any difference at all which side of the road they're SUPPOSED to drive on, an Italian will simply drive his little Fiat on whichever side of the road he is able to go fastest on!
italians can drive?