a few months later, the rebellion against the royalty rose also in the territory of salerno. federico, younger son of ferrante was arrested and held as a prisoner by the rebels. the main strategic idea of the rebels was to interrupt the communication between naples and the other regions of the kingdom, preventing the king and his army from going through their territory. once the capital would be isolated, they would allow to the pope to enter the kingdomnaples and endow another candidate to the neapolitan throne. to do so, they counted on lorena and roberto di san severino's intervention. nevertheless, the lorena never showed up.