Aspirations of an Empire

Not satisfied with being merely First Consul, Napoleone di Buonaparte is proposing that he be crowned Emperor of Italy. He justifies this by claiming that restoring the hereditary succession would make it harder to restore the antico regime of Italy to power - after all, there have been several royalist plots on his life - but there is little doubt that his prime motivation is to further his own ambitions for supreme power. The proposal has met with widespread support among the populace, who yearn for the relative stability of the pre-revolutionary years; however, diehard supporters of the Revolution express worry at this attempt to concentrate even more power in Napoleone's hands.