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I have no time to develop this TL, so I leave to other members who may wish to (any Italian 19th century expert out there?). I've been working on the Italian writer and patriot Ippolito Nievo, who was the officer keeping the Treasure of the Garibaldi expedition in Sicily. He died in a shipwreck in 1861, at only 29, while returning from Palermo to the mainland. He was to attend an inquiry by the authories about the financial management of the expedition, that had been accused of misgivings on the Piedmontese press, when the ship disappeared in a storm. Cash accounts drowned with him.
What if his ship landed safely? He could have had a great prestige as a patriot and writer, and could spend that moral capital in a political career in with the democratic Left-wing liberals, or just become one of the greatest writers Italy has ever had (his novels are still read in Italy and are very good; he also had started writing somee stuf very close to science fiction).
Any idea?
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