Ruy Lopez or Italian game?

Based on some of your games, I would work on the following:

1. Tactics.  Youre missing simple tactics, and youre falling to simple tactics.

2. Double checking your moves.  Youre hanging pieces for no reason.

3. Openings are the least of your worries, and learning more openings isnt going to help your tactics, or board vision.

"Of all chess openings, the Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest, best and most analyzed." - FM Carsten Hansen (2010)

"Alekhine advised beginners not to play the Spanish game. We also recommend you get some experience first by playing relatively simple openings - the Scotch and Italian games - and only then move on to the Spanish one." - Journey to the Chess Kingdom by Yuri Averbakh and Mikhail Beilin

"... Although this book ends with a plea to consider the Ruy Lopez, it is understood that this is quite an undertaking. With that in mind, we will stick with our philosophy of giving you openings that are much easier to study (having a narrower range of strategic ideas to learn) and are solid yet give you a decent opportunity to create winning chances. … the Vienna game with g2-g3 and the Four Knights' Game. … If you're an average player (1200-1800 rating range) in your 20s through 40s, there is still time for you to do what I'm about to suggest. If you're a scholastic player, then there is a special plea coming from someone who wished he had followed a TD's advice many years ago. My plea is this: make the Ruy Lopez an ongoing project while you play the Four Knights or Vienna Game. … The Ruy Lopez is a lifetime of study. If you're up to the task, you'll become a really fine chessplayer. The task. however, is quite daunting. …" - Pete Tamburro (2014)

it doesn't matter imo, in either choice you'll soon be out of book playing against a non losing move