Political exiles were a prominent feature of political life in Renaissance Italy, often a source of intense concern to the states from which they were banished,

This book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of exiles in the political life of fifteenth-century Italy. It also provides fresh perspectives on

A wide ranging survey of the political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in Renaissance Italy.

An examination of the nature of popular government and oligarchy in towns and cities throughout Renaissance Italy, and of the reasons why broadly-based civic go