Hi _defalt,
I'm going to close this thread because I started a different approach: I converted the partition scheme from MBR (yes, it was indeed MBR) to GPT using the MBR2GPT utility available in Windows10.
I then enabled UEFI in the BIOS and re-run the installation but I'm still having problems which I will post in a new thread unless I find a solution elsewhere in the forum.

I did run kali-live USB and it started fine, so I think my machine is compatible with kali.

Thanks
Sergio