Titolo Pareri eccezionali: procedure decisionali ordinarie e straordinarie nella politica comunale del XIII secolo Periodico Quaderni storici Anno: 2009 - Volume: 44 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 399 - Pagina finale: 410
In communal Italy, the city councils turn very frequently to the legal advice of communal lawyers for political questions. The extraordinary diffusion of more or less restricted commissions of "sapientes", whose political intervention is not strictly ruled, seems to become the "exceptional" weapon against the institutional rigidity of the late 13th century city governments, in order to allow the steady political participation of groups not chosen according to the very rigorous electoral system.