1482 Sixtus goes to war with Ferrara. Feuds in Rome. Victory at Campo Morto of Roberto Malatesta, the papal general. Peace with Ferrara.
1483 Excommunication of Venice for not making peace with Ferrara. Savonarola begins to preach.
1484 Sixtus attacks the Colonnas in his designs to increase power of Girolamo Riario. Death of Sixtus. The Romans attack Riario and other members of the pope’s family. Giovanni Battista Cibo, Innocent VIII.
1485 Siege of Rome by Virginio Orsini in a quarrel at the instigation of Naples. Innocent intimidated. Relief of Rome by Roberto Sanseverino.
1486 Rumours of French intervention lead the cardinals to urge the pope to make peace with Ferdinand, which he does in a manner favourable to Naples.
1487 Alliance of Innocent with Lorenzo de’ Medici.
1489 Djem, brother of Bajazet II, arrives a prisoner in Rome. Innocent claims the kingdom of Naples because Ferdinand will not pay tribute.
1492 Peace made between the pope and Naples after three years of bickering. Death of Innocent. Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI. He suppresses the disorder in Rome occasioned by Innocent’s death. Naples offers obedience.
1493 Lodovico Il Moro arrays the pope, Milan, and Venice against Florence and Naples and invites Charles VIII of France to revive the Anjou claim to Naples. Alexander divides the lands of the new world between the Spanish and Portuguese. Peace made with Naples.
1494 Close alliance of the pope and Naples. Charles VIII arrives in Italy.