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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
Amalia's Tale A Poor Peasant an Ambitious Attorney and a Fight for Justice
Author: David I. Kertzer
This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. — Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from the mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city's foundli...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618551064
ISBN-10: 0618551069
Publication Date: 3/6/2008
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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