What if the Austrian Empire had managed to defeat the franco-savoyard forces during the Second Italian Independence War (1859)?
Would italian unification be halted? If so, then for how long?
What are the effects on the United Provinces Of Central Italy? Will they still join Savoy?
As Austria is more likely to hold Lombardy, then will they choose to develop the region later as it was substantially rich? If an alternate Ausgleich of sorts still happens, will it result in a triple monarchy between Austria, Hungary, and "Northern Italy"?
One more interesting thing i heard: the austrian government had plans to estabilish a colony somewhere in Africa or Asia, but the botched austrian participation in this war (and a subsequent defeat in the larger Austro-Prussian War) led to these colonial plans being abandoned. If they defeat the savoyards, could we see an austrian colony in, say, Eritrea, Somalia, Lybia or somewhere alike?