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In 1608 Captain Robert Thornton was sent by Ferdinand I de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany to explore Northern Brazil, the Amazon and nowadays' French Guyana.
The ambitious Grand Duke wanted Thornton to explore in particular Guyana in order to find supplies of rosewood, balsam and cotton that the Captain later actually found in the region reporting also the presence of wild sugar canes, white pepper, cotton and many other kinds of merchandise.
Unfortunately, as he went back the next year he found out that Ferdinand was dead and his son, Cosimo II, wasn't interested in colonization.

Here we go: what if Ferdinand lived longer?
Are another PoD(s) necessary to have this colony remaining Tuscan 'till Italian Unification? And after?
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