It's a fake
The wood looks to be acid treated inside to make it look old. Take the bass apart and scrape the top down and re-graduate it slightly and smell the fresh Pine wood.
The Scroll is Hungarian style, something you will not usually see on an old Italian.
When you remove the Top, you might learn how poorly the blocks and braces were fitted. That is common with some of these fakes and copies. Also, in time, things will move and come apart. Maybe not so much in a more humid place like Germany or Italy but in NE USA, this would come apart in a year going thru the seasons.
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