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In 1554, a group of 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. The author describes that the young women were…

Comment saisir l'activité intellectuelle à l'époque moderne? Comment faire dialoguer des traditions historiographiques - la française et l'italienne - qui, pour être proches au plan géographique, n'en mobilisent pas moins des questionnaires, des méthodes, des objets divergents? …

"Dino Compagni's classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the first decade of the fourteenth century. During that time Florence was one of the largest cities in Europe and a center of commerce a…