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What if either Mehmet's 1480 attempt to take Otranto or the 1565 Great Siege of Malta had succeeded, giving the Ottomans a foothold in (or off the coast of) Italy? Could the Ottomans have pressed their advantage and taken the penninsula? What would be the effects of a Muslim power threatening (or even taking ) Rome?