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Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence
Lost Girls Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence
Author: Nicholas Terpstra
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 lo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801894992
ISBN-10: 0801894999
Publication Date: 6/10/2010
Pages: 264
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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