Problem: What was the political layout of the Italian peninsula during Napolean's invasion of Italy during the French Revolution in 1796. What are the principal governments? What do you think are the factors standing in the way of Italian greatness so that compared to France, it is disunited, there are no great powers among its states, and it functions largely as a battlefield between France (on the one hand) and Austria and England (on the other hand) during the Napoleonic Wars? If you wanted to unify Italy and make it a strong and independent nation like France, how would you go about it?