Roman/Latin Reunification by Napoleon

It near enough happened as things were. The northern part of Italy was unified under a kingdom bearing that name, while the southern part of Italy was united under the kingdom of Naples, while France claimed lordship over Rome and Genoa.

It's concievable that Napoleon could have forced a unification, though that would mean a lot of rebellious activity from nationalists of the seperate kingdoms, to say the least.

Though given the way Europe was set up at the time, a unified Italy could be seen as a potential rival to France in the future. So I'm not sure what incentive Napoleon would have to create a powerful vassal state that could potentially oppose him, when he could make two or more seperate vassal states that he can play against each other.
 
in the Alternate History Books and Media thread there was a brief discussion in one of the map threads surrounding Napolean's plans for Portugal which led to the revelation that Napolean had planned for the Kingdom of Naples to be absorbed into the Kingdom of Italy (along with Malta and the Ionian Islands) after a general peace with Britain. Also he seems to have intended for the Bonaparte dynasty in Italy to become separate (although I may have mixed up that part a bit - some of the source documents were translations of Italian documents so it could be that I've forgotten bits and pieces and that he intended for Italy to play the role of Wales in the UK with a Prince of Italy becoming Emperor of France).
 
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