Your challenge is to have a pre-1900s Padanian nation exist. Bonus points if they see themselves as Celts who were conquered by the Romans.
AHC: Pre-1900s Padanian Nationalism
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Napoleon keeps the Transpadane Republic around instead of lumping it into the Cisalpine and then Italian republics? Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard considering Napoleon was running around organising random French Sister Republics on regional lines when he invaded northern Italy.
That's easy, actually:
Sure, it's a Kingdom of Upper Italy instead of a proto-Padania but, close enough.
An alternate version of the treaty that kept Tuscany independent and let Piedmont-Sardinia absorb Modena and Parma in exchange for the restoration of an independent Venetian state would've created borders closely following language families: a Gallo-Italic (+ Sardinian) Kingdom of Upper Italy in the Northwest, a Venetian state in the Northeast including Rhaeto-Romance but culturally quite similar Friuli, a Tuscan state, a Central Italian state, and a Southern (Neapolitan/Sicilian) state.
The establishment of some sort of confederation could be enough to keep this version of Italy from unifying and, with time, the various kingdoms would've identified with a different historical substratum, while keeping a common Italic/Roman identity on top.
Sure, it's a Kingdom of Upper Italy instead of a proto-Padania but, close enough.
An alternate version of the treaty that kept Tuscany independent and let Piedmont-Sardinia absorb Modena and Parma in exchange for the restoration of an independent Venetian state would've created borders closely following language families: a Gallo-Italic (+ Sardinian) Kingdom of Upper Italy in the Northwest, a Venetian state in the Northeast including Rhaeto-Romance but culturally quite similar Friuli, a Tuscan state, a Central Italian state, and a Southern (Neapolitan/Sicilian) state.
The establishment of some sort of confederation could be enough to keep this version of Italy from unifying and, with time, the various kingdoms would've identified with a different historical substratum, while keeping a common Italic/Roman identity on top.