Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Count of Virtue, the most remarkable member of a remarkable family. Establishing the Ducato di Milano and swallowing up much of Northern Italy, his goal was a Kingdom of Italy and he was off to a good start. But in 1402, after taking Bologna, the Viper was besieging Florence when he caught the plague. Within a month he was dead, fifty-one years young.
WI: Gian Galeazzo does not die, but lives another twenty or so years?
WI: His brood, despicable in reality, mature beside their father and gain his talents?
Florence would fall. Genoa comes under the biscione in 1409. How would the Visconti deal with a fragile Rome during the Western Schism? How about Venice? Naples? And what about exploration... with that much coin and curiosity, could a unified Italy embrace her Genoese explorers and colonize... India, Americas?
Your opinions would be most appreciated.
WI: Gian Galeazzo does not die, but lives another twenty or so years?
WI: His brood, despicable in reality, mature beside their father and gain his talents?
Florence would fall. Genoa comes under the biscione in 1409. How would the Visconti deal with a fragile Rome during the Western Schism? How about Venice? Naples? And what about exploration... with that much coin and curiosity, could a unified Italy embrace her Genoese explorers and colonize... India, Americas?
Your opinions would be most appreciated.