the ascendency of the Catholic Church as a secular power preventing the unification of Italy. Books by Harry Turtledove Umberto III – In the alternate 2010 depicted in In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Italy (like Spain and Portugal) is an ally of the Greater German Reich and possesses its own empire but is compelled to carry out racial policies such as the extermination of Arabs in its territories. The Italian King is a figurehead but does hold influence in domestic politics. Cosimo III - In the alternate timeline depicted in Through Darkest Europe, due to the adoption by Thomas Aquinas and Al-Ghazali of opposite positions regarding the compatibility of reason and religion than in real-life, Islamic North Africa and the Middle East are the "liberal, tolerant, and above all rich" First World whilst Christian Europe is an impoverished hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. By the alternate fifteenth century AH, Cosimo is the Grand Duke of Italy (except for Sicily, which is still under Maghrebi control) and is regarded as a strongman. He is killed by an Aquinist suicide bomber. Lorenzo III - Grand Duke of Italy in Through Darkest Europe, he succeeded his father Cosimo III. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Prince Escalus is the reigning prince of Verona. He is possibly based on Bartolomeo I of the Scaliger family. The Tempest by William Shakespeare King Alonso is the monarch of Naples and the father of Prince Ferdinand. J Japan and the Greater Japanese Empire The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Emperor Suzaku [ja], the Kiritsubo emperor's son and immediate successor Emperor Reizei [ja], Suzaku's successor and supposedly also a son of the Kiritsubo emperor but secretly a son of the protagonist, Hikaru Genji The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling In this novel, Akahito is the Emperor of Dai-Nippon (Greater Japan) in 2025. Dai-Nippon, with its capital based in Peking, encompasses Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, most of Southeast Asia and coastal colonies in Siberia and Alaska. Regarding the Fall as beneficial, Dai-Nippon rivals the Angrezi Raj. Books by Harry Turtledove In In the Presence of Mine Enemies, set in an alternate timeline where the Axis Powers won the Second World War, an unnamed Emperor of Manchukuo (a subordinate ruler within the Japanese Greater East Asia Sphere of Co-Prosperity) is one of many heads of state who commiserate the death of the Führer, Kurt Haldweim. In