italy

In the fourteenth century, Italy's famed cities- the proud communes who had humbled the Hohenstaufen Kaisers- fell victim to the insidious, inevitable erosion of traditional institutions, and succumbed to the rule of tyrants. The Papacy had fled to Avignon and Imperial Germany collapsed into...

Let's suppose that after the destruction of the Gepids, it's the Avars who leave the Pannonian basin to invade Italy. How could things play out? How different would things be if there was an Italic state with a non-Christian, at least in the beginning, ruling class? And what if the Pannonian...

Of late, i've been brainstorming out some AH ideas, and being that i'm good at coming up with sweeping ideas, but less so in sussing out plausibilites, I have chosen to come to the AH.Com forum with my idea and request feedback with a view towards writing a TL. Essentially, my idea boils down...

In OTL, Italy was divided into many City-States, Duchies and Kingdoms. From the Medieval times, to the Renaissance, and to the 19th century, there were many famous nations, such as Venice, Genoa, and Tuscany and etc. Eventually, all of it was United during the 19th century under the Kingdom of...

What if Francesco II Sforza, the last member of his family to rule Milan, lived longer (say until the age of 60) and had an adult son at the time of his death? How would Italy be affected by a Lombardy that retains its independence instead of falling completely into the Habsburg orbit? What...

Full ASB scenario: Italian Andreotti VII government (supported by neofascist MSI) denounces Osimo Treaty (that gave upper Istria, former B Zone of Free Trieste Territory to Yugoslavia) since Yugoslavia is no more in 1991 making the treaty null. Which are the consequences besides Italy becoming...

Inspired by the many threads about a neutral Italy. If fascist Italy (with or without Mussolini) are angry over both Nazi Germany and Japan support over Ethiopia, they want to distance themselves from Japan. Once in 1938 or 1939 when Germany shifted away from China towards Japan and took back...

The Thornton Expedition was the only time an Italian nation (Excluding Malta) try to colonize the New World. In 1608, Robert Thornton, under the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I, was sent to prepare the establishment of Tuscan Colony in modern-day modern day French Guiana. However, when...

Between 1859 and 1861, the Kingdom of Sardinia embarked on a conquest of the Italian peninsula. While they were able to unify most of the peninsula and declare the Kingdom of Italy, they were initially unsuccessful in capturing the city of Rome, which was controlled by the Pope himself, with...

I’m interested in Romania specifically due to its unique Latin culture and the fact its inherently more Western or “Mediterranean” (using the term liberally) than Eastern European or “Russian.” Facially, culturally, linguistically Romanians share far more with Spaniards or Italians than...

This is just something that popped into my head, but would Rome, being a historically important city, in both religious and non-religious senses, always by a united Italy’s capital?

As we all know, WW2 eventually ended after the combined allied forces took Berlin, with Italy falling after Mussolini was ousted and Germany surrendering not long after. But two years before, there were plans by Churchill to invade Italy, which were rejected by the Americans. What would happen...

This was prevented by the existence of Duchess Anne Beatrice of Modena because the marriage of Anne Beatrice to Umberto I made a peaceful transfer of Lombardy to Savoy-Piedmont possible while Venice, Friuli, and Trentino remained part of Austria. The alternative to this was the French who wanted...

She has a claim to Britain, I read she is the reason why Italy and Britain were quite in tension during the unification of Ireland, I read that she also wanted one of her sons as the King of Ireland which the Kingdom of Italy tried to pursue in WWI. For Starters there would never be peace...

One of the things that impress me is the amount of italians and italo-americans in the US today and even during all it's history, being a protestant anglo-saxon country and all. I've been wanting a scenario with England for a while but all I could think of is catholic UKs that have been done...

What would the politics of Italy look like in a late CP victory? Let's say Italy sbows out after the twin disasters of Caporetto and Monte Grappa, with the Austro-Hungarians advancing to the Po river while taking Venice? What would Italy look like in defeat?

If Fascist Italy was neutral during WW2 and remained in a firm control of Italy to at least 1965. What effects would that have on the Vatican II Council that liberalized the Roman Catholic Church? Would Vatican II even happen at all?

The Second Lombard League was originally dissolved on 1250 when Frederick II Hohenstaufen died and the italian city-states saw no reason to continue it as they considered that the imperial threat was gone. But let's just imagine Konrad IV, Frederick's son, somehow survived and continued to try...

As the title says. World War 1 ends in status quo ante bellum followed by a prolonged Cold War between Central Powers and the Entente. How would this impact cultural development, self-identity and various art movements? OTL during and after the Cold War there was/is a notion (albeit one that's...

italy's joining of the triple alliance with AH and Germany is a bit of an oddity when one considers their relationship with Austria was always... less than pleasant due to Italian adriatic claims. Now, even against France they had some desires (i believe tunis and some minor claims against the...