Your favourite 12 Italian Prog albums?

Yeah, Ys is a bit heavy, and definitely something else than Neo-Prog - like classic ELP. 

If he likes ELP it's likely he'll like Il Baletto Di Bronzo too. I never thought a band could be more bombastic than ELP but they might just be that band. 

I can't avoid it, despite listing only one album per band.

No particular order:

PFM - Per un Amico

Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero

Arti e Mestieri - Tilt

Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra

Area - Arbeit Macht Frei

Alphataurus - S/T

Locanda delle Fate -  Arbeit Macht Frei

I'll stop there. 

PFM - Per Un Amico

Banco - Same (first album)

Il Baletto Di Bronzo - YS

Alphataurus - Same

Semiramis - Dedicato D' A Fraaz

Le Orme - Serona E Felona

Banco - Di Terra (don't currently own it)

New Trolls - Concerto Grosso Number 1 (don't currently own it)

PFM - Storia Di Un Minuto

Logos - Sadako e le Mille gru di carta (as good as most classic RPI albums imo)

Maxophone - Same

I need to become  more familiar with others. I was a bit disappointed with the first Biglietto Per L'Inferno but it's still good.

I can surely recommend my own list which is pretty much some of the generally most appreciated albums. 

Wow! That's a very big Italian Prog collection, I'd say. 

I adore Italian Prog as well, and sometimes I get even the thought that the Italian Prog is the one I can enjoy very most.

These are great! 

I've always thought the term "Krautrock" to be quite insulting and derogatory, so I feel the same way for these terms (that I'd never heard before) as well. Do Germans refer to themselves as "Krauts"? French as "frogs"? Muslems as "towel heads"? Vietnamese as "gooks"? Japanese as "Japs" or "Nips"? Indians as "wogs"? 

I'm glad for PA's decision to recognize Rock Progressivo Italiano in its own term (despite the fact that it is considered a style, not a national movement, and, therefore, not inclusive to all Italian artists). The imperious naming of all things in British (or American) English has never felt right with me as I know I'd feel irked if people insisted in referring to my familiar place names in foreign tongues: like "Nueva York" for New York or "D'étroit" for Detroit, or Mee-ah-mee for Miami, or "Chee-ca-go" and "Mitchigan" for Chicago and Michigan, respectively. Exit: Peking, Bombay, Abyssinia, Munich, Cologne, Danzig, Byzantium, Switzerland, Vienna, Florence, Siam, Egypt, Hungary, Cambodia, Netherlands, Spain, et al.; replace them with their real native language names. Why can't the English-speaking peoples of the world honor native names and their pronunciations?