What was the year it all went wrong for Italy?

What was the year it all went wrong for Italy?

/balt/

/esp/

>inb4 1861
1940

395

>Italians
>Romans

1994
>end of prima repubblica
>end of economical growth
>end of all the dreams

When Marcus Aurelius appointed Commodus as his successor

Arguably 1494.
If you count the roman empire, 180.
If you only count since the founding of the nation, well maybe 1969? It's pretty hard to find one point.

1494

1871

aragon stronk

So what ? You won the war(s)

Nah, since Charles first claimed the throne of Naples and started the Italian Wars, Italy became the battlefield of Europe for the next century, and most Italian states lost their independence either to France or to Spain/Austria

>Arguably 1494.
I'd say 1508 since that fucked Venice up but you aren't wrong

>If you count the roman empire, 180.
meh Commodus was just a bad ruler. It was the third century that fucked Rome, then again Italy was the most powerful western country until the gothic wars.

>If you only count since the founding of the nation, well maybe 1969? It's pretty hard to find one point.

why 1969? also I'd say that the shit hit the fan during the eighties

Oh, sorry, kek

But sometimes, you can't help but wanting to anschluss your neighbors

2016

That year marked the beginning of the end because Ludovico il Moro decided to start the trend of inviting foreigners in the boot to help settle internecine affairs, giving said foreigners the same in the greeks did to the romans in the 2nd century BC, and with the same results.

No but see Cambrai was just a consequence of a phenom already started: foreigners meddling in italian affairs.

The point is not the beginning of Commodus' reign, it's the end of the adoptive tradition. And also a symbolic beginning to the series of pestilences that raped the empire, of which Marcus Aurelius was himself a victim.

1969 because that's when shit hit the fan with all the syndacalism, terrorism started and the governments begun blowing public debt out of the roof to keep the people happy.

1861 and every year after that

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Christianity weakened our warrior bones
GLORIA A GIOVE

t. paolo sizzi

Caracalla's edict.