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The immediate conflict was not ended until 1494, after Innocent VIII's death.
This dates the end of the papal-Neapolitan conflict too late. Innocent VIII and Ferrante made peace in August 1486, and a further settlement was ratified in 1492.
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The sentence places the end of the conflict in 1494, but standard histories show that the direct conflict between Innocent VIII and Ferrante of Naples was settled years earlier.
- Treccani's modern papal encyclopedia says that in the summer of 1486 Innocent VIII "yielded to the necessity of peace," that the preliminaries were signed in the Vatican on the night of 9 August 1486, and that the treaty text was officially signed on 11 August 1486.
- Ludwig von Pastor's classic history likewise says the agreement was concluded in August 1486, with preliminaries signed on the night of 9th-10th August, 1486.
- Treccani further notes a replacement treaty was announced in January 1492 and ratified on 7 February 1492.
So 1494 is not the date when the "immediate conflict" ended. That year belongs to Charles VIII's later invasion of Italy, not to the end of Innocent VIII's immediate quarrel with Ferrante.
2 sources
- Innocenzo VIII - Enciclopedia dei Papi (Treccani)
Treccani states that with the arrival of summer 1486 Innocent VIII accepted peace; preliminaries were signed on 9 August and the treaty was officially signed on 11 August 1486. It also notes a substitute treaty announced in January 1492 and ratified on 7 February 1492.
- History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Book VIII: Innocent VIII
"The agreement was concluded without difficulty ... in the night of 9th-10th August, 1486, the preliminaries were signed."