[Mobile ebook] Astonishing Legends Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
☆ David I. Kertzer ☆
| #952538 in Books | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2008-03-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.56 x5.50l,.83 | File Name: 0618551069 | 256 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Compelling tale of sex and money|By WeHo book lover|Kertzer won a Pulitzer this year. He is a solid, academic writer, though I don't necessarily love how his politics influence his writing/ This non-fiction work reads like a novel. Local officials pay impoverished peasants a few lire a month to nurse the illegitimate infants in orphanages. It is just one more, poignant exa|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . In this absorbing account, Amalia Bagnacavalli's tale is a horrific one. An impoverished Italian peasant in the late 19th century, Amalia was hired as a wet nurse and contracted syphilis from the infant assigned her by a Bologn
This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from the mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city’s foundling home to wet-nurse. When Amalia contracts syphilis from the sickly and malformed baby given to her, the city... [PDF.bo72] Astonishing Legends Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice Rating: 3.59 (445 Votes)
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