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The backbone of the Guelfs was in communes such as Florence and Genoa.
The utopian communes of anarchists, socialists, and hippies, for example, have not even dented it.
The communes were strong enough to confine German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa’s Italian ambitions to the south, where he secured Sicily for his Hohenstaufen heirs by marrying his son into the Norman royal family.
Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.
While the new Third Republic’s government under Adolphe Thiers negotiated the terms of surrender, the workers’ communes refused to give in.