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Amalia's Tale

David I. Kertzer · 2008

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Examines a nineteenth-century court case in which attorney Augusto Barbieri took on the case of Amalia Bagnacavalli, an impoverished peasant woman from Bologna, Italy, who contracted syphilis from the sickly baby she had been forced to wet nurse.

Book details

Year
2008
Language
English
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Editions
3
Pages
256
ISBN
9780618551064

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