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both cups on an italian BB are clockwise to tighten, anticlcockwise to loosen.
If you have access to a vice, vice the BB tool (facing up). then drop the cup down on to the tool. Use the whole frame as a lever, it'll come out.
check you haven't got any lockrings going on first though.