Lost Girls Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

Name: Lost Girls Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9781421407722

ISBN-10: 1421407728

ISBN-13: 9781421407722

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nicholas Terpstra

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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 Pietà).Reaching deep into the archives' letters, ledgers, and records from both inside and outside the home, he slowly pieces together the tragic story. The Casa welcomed girls in bad health and with little future, hoping to save them from an almost certain life of poverty and drudgery. Yet this…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Note on Dates, Currency, and Measures



Mystery and Silence



The Setting: Sex and the City



Renaissance Teenagers: Working Girls



Teenage Girls and Birth Control



Renaissance Fundamentalists and Girls in Trouble



Virgin Girls and Venereal Disease



Conclusion: Friction in the Archives


Appendix: Sexual Politics: Giulia and the Crown Prince Gonzaga


Notes


Bibliography


Index