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So lets say Italian peninsula is united by the Papal States rather than the Kingdom of Sardinia/Italy. Do you think there would be any push in this Papal Italy to obtain a colonial empire (Libya, other parts of Africa, etc) like there was in OTL Italy?

Also, as an aside, does anyone know of any Catholic figures who were pro-unification and could have, in an ATL, been elected as pope instead of the anti-unification Pius IX?
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