Thanks for clearing it up.
Was aware to some degree that Italy is a less monolingual country with a significant number subscribing to a more regional identity with their own dialects, though up to now otherwise ignorant on the existence of Gallo-Italic languages let alone other Romance languages within Italy itself.
To what degree are Gallo-Italian languages such as Piedmontese and Lombard a true hybrid of French and Italian, since have read there is a lack of mutual intelligibility between French and Italian at least in terms of spoken communication (though slightly more mutually intelligible in terms of written communication)?
Would be interesting to somehow find a way to have a small-ish Gallo-Italic state remain a separate entity from the ATL Italian Unification.
It is not at all a 'mixture'. Basically languages tend to form a continuum where each village speaks something very like the next village; but by the time you travel hundreds of miles (km, leagues, whatever), the speech is quite different.
So. Dutch to Low German to Upper German to High German isn't several languages, but a gradual shift.
Similarly from south Italy through Rome to Tuscany to Savoy and Provence to
1) various dialects up the Rhone valley to Paris
2) the Occitan dialects across south France to Catalonia to Aragonese to Castillian to Leonese to Galician to Portuguese.
All these languages evolved in place from Vulgar Latin.
So when we say 'Gallo-Italian' we mean somehing that is about half-way from French to Italian - not because of mixture, but because of differing evolution and diffusion of various linguistic tendencies.