Principality of Verona

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back with a little mini-project (~4-5 hour project). I have something significantly bigger in the works, I promise.

This is my interpretation of the Principality of Verona from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. For those that don't know, Romeo and Juliet is set in a city of Verona ruled by a sovereign prince. However, there was never actually a Prince of Verona; the closest Verona came to being independent was as a March of the Holy Roman Empire, and the capital of that March wasn't even the city of Verona (it was Aquila, for the curious). Verona ended up a part of the Venetian Republic. However, in my interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, Venice is a little less lucky/powerful, and Verona is able to preserve its independence as a minor trading city state, where two families hold great influence...

(Note: With some minor exceptions, most of the rest of Northern Italy is OTL.)