Alfonso V Conquers Naples
1442
The Aragonese king-poet entered Naples through an aqueduct, took the Angevin throne, and united Sicily, Sardinia, and southern Italy under one crown for the first time in centuries. His court became an early Italian Renaissance center where Catalan, Neapolitan, and Latin mingled over shared humanist manuscripts. His court hosted Lorenzo Valla, who proved the Donation of Constantine a forgery, undermining papal claims to temporal authority.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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