Expedition of the Thousand fails?

Like it says in the title-what if the Expedition of the Thousand had failed, and the Kingdom of the two Sicilies remained? How would it affect Italian unification, and the rest of Europe?
 
Well, where does it fail, and how? Is it when Garibaldi and the Red Shirts first land on Sicily? (Perhaps Lombardo is sunk before its disembarked all its troops); is it during the siege of Palermo? (Perhaps General Lanza doesn't surrender and is able to defeat the Mille after his reinforcements arrive - IOTL he surrendered even with the reinforcements); do the Bourbons try and hold the island after Palermo or abandon it as in IOTL (even though the local garrisons by that time were putting down the pro-Garibaldi uprising)?; do the Sicilians peasants successfully rise up against the Red Shirts after Garibaldi attempts to force them into conscription (IOTL Bixio slaughtered the counter-revolutionaries in a bloody campaign); do Depretis or la Farina convince Garibaldi to stop the invasion at Sicily and let it be absorbed into the Savoyard's realm without Naples?; is Garibaldi killed or captured and the Red Shirt army destroyed at Milazzo, as nearly happened IOTL?; etc. etc. And those are just possible PODs on Sicily itself. There's plenty of opportunity for the Expedition to fail once Garibaldi is in Naples. Hell, Garibaldi himself wanted to rule the Two Sicilies as a republican Italian state, and had declared himself Dictator of Sicily & Naples before Victor Emmanuel's forces arrived on the scene. Even then Garibaldi tried to get himself appointed governor until a 'proper Italian government' could be created. So what if Garibaldi doesn't back down, and the Italian nationalists start a civil war while the Bourbons regather their strength at Gaeta and in the Potenza Insurrection and their reactionary allies in Rome, Paris, Vienna, and Madrid begin to stir. How's that sound Shtudmuffin?
 
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