"Checkmate"

Episode XIV: "Checkmate" is the fourth episode of Season 2 of Brazilian Mapping's Alternate History of Europe series (fourteenth episode overall). It premiered on YouTube on November 15th, 2019, with a length of exactly 1 hour, 1 minute and 1 second.
The episode begins with Giovanni Morosini, a writer living in the Ambrosian Republic of Milan, looking back on the story of the Italic Union, from its formation in 1517 during the Great Mediterranean War, to the wars that took place in Italy ever since.
The rest of the episode is set between 1527 and 1533, it features five conflicts:
* First Italian War
* Syrian War
* Mughal Invasion of Afghanistan
* Aegean Crisis & Marche Uprising
* Second Italian War
"Checkmate" is said twice in the episode. First it is Italia who says it to Romagna, in the latter's final days, and then it is the final line delivered in the episode, delivered by Lorenzo Furlan, the Captain & Defender of the Lombard Republic, when Italia descends into a succession war following the death of King Ferrante. (It's also Lombardy's first line in the next episode, "Calamity" Part 1.)
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