I will return with hasty steps if you, or any other, can open to me a way that shall not derogate from the fame or the honour of Dante; but if by no such way Florence can be entered, then to Florence I shall never return." His enemies remaining implacable, Dante, after a banishment of twenty years, died in exile.

They even pursued him after death, when his book, 'De Monarchia,' was publicly burnt at Bologna by order of the Papal Legate.
Camoens also wrote his great poems mostly in banishment.

Tired of solitude at Santarem, he joined an expedition against the Moors, in which he distinguished himself by his bravery.

He lost an eye when boarding an enemy's ship in a sea-fight.

At Goa, in the East Indies, he witnessed with indignation the cruelty practised by the Portuguese on the natives, and expostulated with the governor against it.