Abandoned children of the Italian Renaissance; orphan care in Florence and Bologna.0801881846 Abandoned children of the Italian Renaissance; orphan orphan: see adoption; foundling hospital; guardian and ward. See widow & orphan. Orphan See also Abandonment. Adverse, Anthony finally, at middle age, discovers origins. [Am. Lit. care in Florence and Bologna Bologna (bōlô`nyä), city (1991 pop. 404,378), capital of Emilia-Romagna and of Bologna prov., N central Italy, at the foot of the Apennines and on the Aemilian Way. . Terpstra, Nicholas. Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. U. Press 2005 349 pages $50.00 Hardcover The John Hopkins University studies in historical and political science; 4 HV1190 Not everyone in the Renaissance was trotting about in silk painting frescoes and inventing the helicopter. Many were children under fifteen who had been abandoned or orphaned, the victims of unstable families and grinding poverty. Rather than allowing them to annoy the good citizens of Florence and Bologna, the city fathers organized private and public facilities to keep guttersnipes off the streets. However, even in that golden age, the results of institutionalization Institutionalization The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world. were mixed. Terpstra (history, U. of Toronto) works through primary resources to find out how boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. came to the institutions, what was done to prepare them for adult life, and how they fared when turned back out to the streets to become good citizens. It appears from his work that Florence's homes and shelters were punitive rather than preparatory, while Bologna's addressed the children's futures more consistently, with the corresponding results. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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