[PDF.04ot] Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

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 | #1196023 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2012-07-11 |  2012-07-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.64 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting|By Elaine|Well written. Beautiful writing near end of book. Good resource on women of Renaissance Florence and silk industry. Would recommend. Used as a resource in Renaissance and Reformation assignment at university.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Misleading premise|By Jeanajoan|I give it three| ||"The book contains fascinating, and sometimes shocking, information about Terpstra’s topic. I appreciated that Terpstra does not exclusively limit himself to the subject of Casa della Pietà, but uses the mystery of what happened to the home&rsquo

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 Pietà).

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