Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: the Ospedale Degli Innocenti, 1410-1536
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1991
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". . . Gavitt's book presents a sustained attempt to rebut the depiction of Florentine children as victims of brutality and the Innocenti as a charnel house where parents knowingly abandoned their unwanted children to certain death. . . . [A] gracefully written an informative book that avoids a naive and sentimental treatment of its subject." --Julius Kirshner, Italica
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