Abandoned children of the Italian Renaissance; orphan care in Florence and Bologna.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Date: 5/1/2006
0801881846
Abandoned children of the Italian Renaissance; orphan care in Florence and Bologna.
Terpstra, Nicholas.
Johns Hopkins U. Press
2005
349 pages
$50.00
Hardcover
The John Hopkins University studies in historical and political science; 4
HV1190
Not everyone in the Renaissance was trotting about in silk painting frescoes and inventing the helicopter. Many were children under fifteen who had been abandoned or orphaned, the victims ...
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