The Bourbon repression destroyed the last consensual foundation of Neapolitan rule.
Evidence
The Bourbons then repudiated this amnesty, and there ensued a pitiless repression, with 129 executions and thousands of imprisonments and exiles, which decimated the Neapolitan intellectuals and destroyed finally any consensual basis for Bourbon rule. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1980