The Orphan Of Florence
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The Orphan Of Florence
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Author : Jeanne Kalogridis
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Orphan Of Florence written by Jeanne Kalogridis and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Fiction categories.
In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man. Giulia has been an orphan all her life. Raised in Florence's famous Ospedale degli Innocenti, her probing questions and insubordinate behavior made her an unwelcome presence, and at the age of fifteen, she was given an awful choice: become a nun, or be married off to a man she didn't love. She chose neither, and after refusing an elderly suitor, Giulia escaped onto the streets of Florence. Now, after spending two years as a successful pickpocket, an old man catches her about to make off with his purse, and rather than having her carted off to prison he offers her a business proposition. The man claims to be a cabalist, a student of Jewish mysticism and ritual magic, who works for the most powerful families in Florence. But his identity is secret—he is known only as "the Magician of Florence"—and he is in need of an assistant. She accepts the job and begins smuggling his talismans throughout the city. But the talismans are not what they seem, and neither is the Magician. When Giulia's involvement with him ends with his murder, she's drawn into a treacherous web of espionage and deceit involving the forces of Rome, Naples, and a man known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. Accused of the Magician's murder, Giulia is pursued by the handsome policeman Niccolo, Lorenzo's henchmen, and foreign spies, and in order to survive, she must not only solve the mystery of the mystery of the Magician's murder, but that of her own past.
Florence The Parish Orphan
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Author : Eliza Buckminster Lee
language : en
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Release Date : 2008-06-01
Florence The Parish Orphan written by Eliza Buckminster Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with categories.
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Abandoned Children Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : Nicholas Terpstra
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-04-07
Abandoned Children Of The Italian Renaissance written by Nicholas Terpstra and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with History categories.
In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and opportunity. In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these homes. He explores the role of the city-state and considers why Bologna and Florence took different paths in operating the orphanages. Terpstra finds that Bologna's orphanages were better run, looked after the children more effectively, and were more successful in returning their wards to society as productive members of the city's economy. Florence's orphanages were larger and harsher, and made little attempt to reintegrate children into society. Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.
Florence
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Author : H J Wood
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-17
Florence written by H J Wood and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-17 with categories.
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The Orphan S Scandal
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Author : Jessica Weir
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-08-05
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Heartwarming saga romance. London, 1879. Will the sins of the mother condemn the daughter to a life of loss? At just 13 years old, Florence Smith's life will change forever. Losing almost everything, she must grow up quickly and hope that a secret scandal does not come back to haunt her. Florence and her grandmother Queenie are forced to move when the family Queenie works for falls on hard times. Florence is devastated to be leaving the only home she has known and Marcus the young lad she's harbouring a crush on. Queenie is forced to flee to where their story began. They find a new normal and squeak by on Florence's job and Queenie's illegal gin business, but the past will not stay buried. When a young man takes an interest in Florence, Queenie knows she must act. There is a secret she must share but can poor Florence take any more? All Queenie has ever wanted is to protect Florence from the past and those that may hurt her. But soon enough Queenie passes leaving Florence to fend for herself on the streets of London. Danger stalks at every turn... will Florence survive on her own? Will she be forced to walk the streets to stay alive? Is there a happily ever after in her future? Find out in this beautiful saga romance The Orphan's Scandal.
Maiden Of Florence
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Author : KATHERINE. MEZZACAPPA
language : en
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Release Date : 2024
Maiden Of Florence written by KATHERINE. MEZZACAPPA and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
Lost Girls
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Author : Nicholas Terpstra
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-06-21
Lost Girls written by Nicholas Terpstra and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-21 with History categories.
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 "safe" house was cruelly dangerous. Victims of Renaissance Florence’s sexual politics, these young women were at the disposal of the city’s elite men, who treated them as property meant for their personal pleasure. With scholarly precision and journalistic style, Terpstra uncovers and chronicles a series of disturbing leads that point to possible reasons so many girls died: hints of routine abortions, basic medical care for sexually transmitted diseases, and appalling conditions in the textile factories where the girls worked. Church authorities eventually took the Casa della Pietà away from the women who had founded it and moved it to a better part of Florence. Its sordid past was hidden, until now, in an official history that bore little resemblance to the orphanage’s true origins. Terpstra’s meticulous investigation not only uncovers the sad fate of the lost girls of the Casa della Pietà but also explores broader themes, including gender relations, public health, church politics, and the challenges girls and adolescent women faced in Renaissance Florence.
Florence And Giles
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Author : John Harding
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011
Florence And Giles written by John Harding and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself - and narrates this, her story - in a unique language of her own invention.
Florence The Parish Orphan
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Author : Eliza Buckminster Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Florence The Parish Orphan written by Eliza Buckminster Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with American fiction categories.
Public Life In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Richard C. Trexler
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1991
Public Life In Renaissance Florence written by Richard C. Trexler and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Public life - Humanism - Civic humanism - Friendship - Ritual - Alberti - Women in Florence - Family - Everyday life in Florence.