Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence by Nicholas Terpstra

Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

Nicholas Terpstra

264 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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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. Str...

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