# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-i-of-naples
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:27:59.659Z

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name: "Ferdinand I of Naples"
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description: "He held Naples for thirty years through calculated marriages, brutal repressions, and a diplomatic network so intricate contemporaries called him \"Judge of Italy\" — the bastard son who turned a contested throne into the Mediterranean's naval powerhouse."
tagline: "King of Naples 1424-1494"
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birthDate: "1423-06-02"
deathDate: "1494-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ferdinand I, illegitimate son of Alfonso the Magnanimous, became king of Naples in 1458 and spent most of his reign fighting to keep it. He recaptured his own kingdom against conspirators, then faced constant threats from the Ottomans, France, Venice, and the papacy. His social reforms curbed baronial power and favored artisans and peasants, sparking a revolt he crushed without mercy. Through decades of war and diplomacy, he balanced the Italian states under the Treaty of Lodi, married off his many children to weave foreign alliances, and built Naples into a Renaissance center surrounded by artists and humanists like Pontano and Panormita. When he died in 1494, he left behind new buildings, a silk industry, the kingdom's first printing presses, and the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.