Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

list of b&w illustration and maps, preface, I. Premises and Vestiges; II. Facts of Exclusion and Exile in Medieval Italy; III. Dante and His Judges: Rules of Exclusion in the Early Fourteenth Century; IV. Facts and Rules of Inclusion: Exiles in the World of Renaissance States; V. The Voices of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; epilogue, notes, index. ``Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book traces the hitherto unwritten history of a 'contrary commonwealth' of exile from its open and collective resistance during the Middle Ages to its submission to Renaissance regimes that were forerunners of the modern state." from the jacket flap.