AHC: The Papal States Unify Italy

Delvestius

Banned
Unite Italy under the Pope (Or a constitutional theocracy) by 1900 with a PoD no earlier than the death of Charlemagne. Make Machiavelli proud.
 

Esopo

Banned
Problem is that the papal states, until 1500's, were more a federation of almost autonomous commons, with no real foreign policy and always infighting.
By 1500 the state was reorganized and became a "real" nation, but by then its neighbours were by far stronger than it. Also the popes's mindset was to spend its resources on its own expensive court and to help catholics around europe, not to expand in italy.
One way could be an italian federation ruled by the pope, as it was suggested by Gioberti in 1800's.
 
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