Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna by Nicholas Terpstra

Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna

Nicholas Terpstra

368 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 aban...

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