Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence
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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 girls of the House of Compassion shelter (Casa della Piet ). Reaching deep into the archives'...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1421407728
ISBN13:9781421407722
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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