Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410-1536

by Philip Gavitt

Alongside the architectural splendor and intellectual brilliance of early Renaissance Florence there existed a second world of poverty, misery, social despair, and child abandonment. The Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents), designed and built between 1419 and 1445 by the renowned architect Filippo Brunelleschi, united these disparate worlds. Christian charity and compassion, as well as the humanist commitment to social perfection,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472101838
• ISBN13: 9780472101832
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"