The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Bietenholz, Peter G. | Copyright information

by Christine Shaw. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 257 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth).

Dr. Shaw's investigation covers primarily the second half of the fifteenth century, or the period from the peace of Lodi to the invasion of Charles VIII of France. It was a time of intensive diplomatic, but on occasion also military interaction between the five major Italian states and a plethora of minor to petty ones. It was the classic time of what we have come to understan...

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