What's your favourite kind of Italy?

Which Italy do you prefer?

  • Pre-Unitary (476-1861)

    Votes: 57 37.0%
  • Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)

    Votes: 25 16.2%
  • Kingdom of Italy (under Fascism) (1922-1943)

    Votes: 6 3.9%
  • Italian Social Republic (1943-1945)

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • Italian Republic (1946-...)

    Votes: 9 5.8%
  • AH Italy

    Votes: 54 35.1%

  • Total voters
    154
Roman Italy. Yeah, I said what you were all thinking.
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I like the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under the late Medicis
I like a Borgia run Papal States
I like Anjou Naples, Sicily, Sardinia
I like the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia to ruled by the Hapsburgs
I like a Union of Savoy and Genoa plus Corsica.

And lots of other city states.
 
I accidentally voted Pre-Unitary instead of Alternate History Italy that I intended to, so to be accurate you need to switch a vote from one to the other.

Too may choices to choose from. A Vsiconti-ruled Milan dominating northern Italy between Savoy and Venice, a northern Italy where Frederick II pacified the rebel Lombard cities and it's a part of a centralising Holy Roman Empire, or a Habsburg dominated northern Italy from Maria Theresa marrying Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy instead of Francis III of Lorraine to create the House of Habsburg-Savoy and hoovering up the region over time. Of the three a House of Habsburg-Savoy ruled northern Italy just beats the other two though.
 
Italy under the Longobards, especially if they could smash the Byzantines and conquer the whole country... But Ostrogothic kingdom is also pretty nasty for the possibilities of developing vulgar italian language and culture, original and separate from the old "being Romans" fetish.
 
I vote pre-unitary because it was the period where the Italians even if divided managed to express at the best of their capacities, and despite all the difficulties they made the peninsula the most prosperous region of Europe until the period of the dynastic wars ruined all.

Aside from that, I want to break a spear in favor of the Republican period, the actual one. I know for the moment the situation in my country is grim, and there were in past dark tragedies in the recent history and other bad things, but despite all there were luminous moments as well. In 1946, despite their different ideologies, all the parties which fought the Fascism managed togheter to write a good constitution, and making of Italy a real democracy for the first time in her history, and posing the basis for the economical recover which made of the peninsula a great industrial power... this should count something in the end.
 
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