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Exactly what it says on the tin. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Habsburgs somehow lead the Italian unification in the 19th century. The end result should be an Italian kingdom ruled by a member of the House of Habsburgs. Bonus points if the Habsburg Emperor simultaneously holds the imperial throne in Vienna as well as the Italian throne, thus uniting the two countries in personal union, leading to a Austro-Italian-Hungarian Empire.

Have as many premature deaths, changes in succession laws, succession wars, marriages and sex changes of important historical figures as you like :).
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