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, unstab…
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 tim…
"La verità processuale ha la pretesa di essere un'oggettiva ricostruzione di un fatto, ma solo la scienza può stabilire situazioni ed eventi che appartengono al reale. Ed è per questo che all'interno dei tribunali si fa sempre più ricorso all'esperienza dei tecnici. Dopo tanti r…
La verità processuale ha la pretesa di essere un'oggettiva ricostruzione di un fatto, ma solo la scienza può stabilire situazioni ed eventi che appartengono al reale. Ed è per questo che all'interno dei tribunali si fa sempre più ricorso all'esperienza dei tecnici. Dopo tanti ra…
Discusses the cause célèbre of Edgardo Mortara, who in 1858, at the age of six, was taken by force from his Jewish home in Bologna by the pontifical police on the grounds that he had been baptized as an infant by a family servant. Despite the efforts of his family, Jews in Italy…
Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapse…
Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapse…
