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Abandoned children of the Italian Renaissance; orphan care in Florence and Bologna.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News  |  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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