The run between Manfred and Eugene is rather tight! Do you have suggestions on the ideas I proposed, or changes to the POD that would make them more interesting or realistic? I am open to suggestions!
Any pre-Napoleonic TL about Naples I'm quite interested in Neapolitan culture.. Not an Italian nationalist, rather saddened by the loss of local traditions and languages in Italy.
We are on the same line then! (BTW I might look like an Italian or Neapolitan nationalist, but I am very far from it. I write about these topics because I don't have enough knowledge on other topics and also to try and "mend" some wrong turns of our history).
Option (a) has obviously the biggest linguistic potential, as the Sicilian poetry school would not decline and therefore either separate linguistic identity is kept for Southern Italy for longer (I mean at an elite/literary level, common language and dialects are pretty different even now) or modern Italian is formed on a Sicilian rather than Tuscan basis.
(b) and imho especially (c) could see a revival of the Neapolitan language, but literary Italian was rather well formed by then.
Yanez!!! Ever going to continue An Ausonian Tale?
I vote A, but would like to also write-in an option E: Norman Sicily continues into the 13th century and beyond.
I might reboot it one day, I tried reviving it a couple of times, but it didn't work, hence why I am trying these new ideas.
I love Hauteville Sicily too, but Zioneer is doing a TL about that and I wouldn't want to step on his lawn. Also, I don't want to butterfly away Frederick II, the
Stupor Mundi.