ok, i will do italy today then. i already checked, with 2-range-city rule in place, you can have genua, milano, trient, venice, bologna and florence all on the map

(roma and napoli too of course)
while working on the mapping, i had some thoughts about some smaller changes to the map. first of all venice has wheat exactly on the best spot for the city, also would be nice if you can put more river around it. then i think tevere should have a slight different path and i would also advice to add the arno to the map for florence. finally, some changes to sicily. placing two small rivers for palermo and catania, as well as getting rid of the other river and moving a resource for a better palermo placement. also, i'd love to have etna on sicily, even at the cost of giving away a tile for that.
here are the pics with coords infos and stuff that i'd suggest to change:
http://imgur.com/a/Cgrsp