Of the many characters that rose from the aftermath of the french revolution, no one is as enigmatic and such a military genius as the italian Alexander, Napoleone Buonaparti that funded the italian empire, I mean, he first couped the genovese government and then defeated the austrians and the southern italians with french help, just to leave the french sphere of influence and create his own dynasty, his victories (especially at Padua where he defeated a four times larger austrian army, crushing the austrian italian front) remains legendary until today
So I was wondering, what could have happened if the Italian empire wasn't formed? Napoleone is a case fo a character that was in the right time and changed everything, like Julius Caesar in Rome; what could be the repercussions of no Napoleone? And how much time would it take to IItaly to unify?