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Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy : Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy Benefactors and their Motives in Turin 15411789 - Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Author: Sandra Cavallo
This is the first thorough study of charity and of medical and poor relief in post-Renaissance Italy. It departs from current interpretations by putting much greater emphasis on the various circumstances that motivated individual men and women to become involved in charity, and argues that conflicts and tensions in their social and political sur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521460910
ISBN-10: 0521460913
Publication Date: 3/31/1995
Pages: 298
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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