Networks of power in the South of Italy in 1507. The substitution of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba as viceroy of Naples

In February 1507, King Ferdinand relieved of his position as Captain General for the Kingdom of Naples to Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba known as the Great Captain. Instead, the Aragonese king appointed Juan of Aragon, Count of Ribagorza, after the death of which had been the first choice: Juan de Lanuza, viceroy of Sicily. Many historians had seen the removal of Fernandez de Cordoba the final expression of jealousy that the Catholic King would have had against him. This work, framing itself in the new paradigm of studies of the court in the Modern Age, argues that the institution of the new viceroy was the way through which Fernando Aragon sought to consolidate power networks in the Kingdom of Naples, and not a whim for bringing down a mighty personality.