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

• Huvudskapare: Terpstra, Nicholas (auth)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Ämnen: European history; European history: Renaissance
• Länkar: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.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...