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The Republic of Florence was a very important state in late medieval and Renaissance politics. Florence is commonly considered the birthplace and centre of the Renaissance, and was the hometown of such eminent figures as Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Niccolo Macchiavelli. The...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred,_King_of_Sicily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Benevento Manfred to me is interesting because, well, Hohenstaufens. What if he had won a crushing victory at Benevento? Say it's wildly successful, a very clear victory in his favor. How would that...

What if Conradin won against Charles of Anjou in the battle of Tagliacozzo and managed to establish himself in Sicily. Would he go north to claim the Emperorship? Would Aragon still invade Sicily in the name of Constance, or would the Sicilian Vespers be butterflied. Additionally, who would the...