Editing Ferdinand I of Naples (section)

==== Internal Politics during the Golden Age ====
The end of the [[Conspiracy of the Barons|rebellion of the barons]] was followed by twenty years of internal peace which allowed Ferrante to strengthen the state and increase its wealth. The confiscation of the lands of the rebel barons transformed the balance of power between the crown and the nobility of the kingdom. Ferrante, always distrustful of the barons, pushed his subjects to greater economic vigor with the introduction of new measures that effectively allowed the entire population of the kingdom to enjoy greater freedom in daily life. With a law of 1466, he allowed farmers to freely dispose of their products, releasing them from the obligation of having to sell the food to the local lord at the price he set.

[[File:Lazzarelli-ferranti-fasti-christianae-religionis-detail.jpg|thumb|Miniature from the late 15th century, possibly from the 1480s showing King Ferrante receiving gifts]]
State-owned cities gained increasing importance as it imposed greater controls on baronial power. In the kingdom the Jews, protected by King Ferrante, carried out a notable artisanal and commercial activity. It was an important moment for municipal freedoms. The king himself granted statutes to state-owned cities and ratified those granted by the barons, favoring the growth of an urban aristocracy as a counterweight to the feudal nobility.<ref name="test1" />

Furthermore, in 1466, in order to prevent the abandonment of the lands with its inevitable consequences, harmful to the tax authorities and to the well-being of the [[Kingdom of Naples|country]], he ordered that the privileged classes, used to hoarding them, could not be of any obstacle to the free sale of the fruits of the earth, such as prices set at their discretion. In 1469, while confirming ecclesiastical immunities, he left them only to those who actually dedicated themselves to the practices of worship. He tried to reactivate the industries, especially those of silk and wool; indeed, he himself became an industrialist and merchant, associating himself with the daring enterprises of Francesco Coppola, later Count of [[Sarno]].

Nor is the increase and promotion of the fine arts and cultural life less innovative. In fact, in addition to the erected architectures and the impulse given to the [[University of Naples Federico II|university]], during his reign a true [[Culture of Italy|Italian]] and Latin culture was formed in the kingdom, which counted among its major representatives the Panormita, the [[Jacopo Sannazaro|Sannazaro]], the [[Giovanni Pontano|Pontano]]: literature that reflected life of the country, its tendencies, its needs, especially through the works of Diomede Carafa, of [[Antonio de Ferraris|Galateo]], of Tristano Caracciolo, and, as such, it was destined to survive even in the following centuries.<ref name="treccani1">{{cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ferdinando-i-d-aragona-re-di-napoli_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/|title = FERDINANDO I d'Aragona, re di Napoli in "Enciclopedia Italiana"}}</ref>

The death of the Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza in 1466, followed later by that of Gjergj Kastrioti, Lord of Albania, deprived Ferrante of his closest friends.