Hi, everyone!
I was thinking about making a TL, and since one of my favourite areas is Modern(ish) Europe, I came up with some ideas, mostly revolving around early (by 25 or by 400 years

) Italian Unification. I mentioned one of them in a thread but it didn't get much replies. So I decided to try my luck with the great People's Vote and see if I should actually write one.
1. Slightly different Congress of Vienna makes Italian Unification easier, cleaning up the central italian states and a civil war in piedmont creates a pro-Union less autocratic Piedmont by 1820. Details, together with a preview and a rough draft for a first part is here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?t=125628
2. Lombard League, after chasing the HRE out of Italy for good in 1250, instead of dissolving becomes a defacto country (similar to the HRE itself). The money flooding in from the Renaissance and now that theyre all working together enables them to conquer Tuscany and Papal States when the Pope leaves in the fourteenth century. To cut a long story short, it develops into a Kingdom, buys Sardinia, Sicily and Malta (yea, it would have the money). Sponsors Colombus in 1492 and by 1500 unites Italy.
The bulk of the action will take place French Revolution onwards, though (Italian Napoleon

).
Original idea found on the Italian Colonies in America thread here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?t=126488
3. I doubt this would actually turn out good but a li'l interesting patriotic idea. A Malta Wank! Dethroning the unpopular Knights in 1798 when Napoleon arrives, the Maltese nobles set up a 'Greater Malta' (woot, a few islands and old Knight's Tunis) and when Nappy starts turning nasty captures him when he stops over in Malta returning from wherever and so has a say in the Congress (not internationally, duh) cos they have Napoleon. I might combine this with the first one if I find out because it could be very interesting.
If anyone has comments, critisicm, suggestions, ideas for any other TL I could make, and anything I forgot about, PLEASE let me know. I DONT want to end up bumping this twice in a row like last thread

.
Jim