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9781421407722 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Lost Girls

  • Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence
  • In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. Struck by the unusually high mortality rate, Nicholas Terpstra sets out to determine what killed the lost ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421407722 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2012
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  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
9781421439242 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

  • Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna
  • Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the ""fathers"" of ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421439242 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2020
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9780801881848 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

  • Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna
  • In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801881848 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $126.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2006
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  • Categories: History [HB]
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