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Innocents of Florence The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood

Luzzi Joseph
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781324065784
Publisert
2025-11-11
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
361 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Luzzi Joseph

Biografisk notat

Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Innocents of Florence The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood

Luzzi Joseph
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
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"[Luzzi] paints a wonderfully sensual and cinematic picture of early modern Florence in all its grubby, gorgeous detail."

- Joe Moran - The Guardian,

"The Innocents of Florence is an example of a complicated humanism: An empathetic study of the perpetual interplay between good intentions, human frailties and imperfect outcomes"

- Tara Isabella Burton - The Wall Street Journal,

"Luzzi’s slender and compelling book, with its accounts of forced pregnancy, family separation, and child labor, feels surprisingly and unsettlingly of the moment."

- The New Yorker, 'Best Books of 2025',

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"A slim, compelling book about one of the first orphanages in Europe contains painful echoes of the present."

- The New Yorker,

"Luzzi concludes this thoughtful, engaging and concise account by emphasising just how revolutionary and influential the Innocenti has been, as ‘the first institution devoted exclusively to the care of abandoned children, a pioneer in surrounding its charges with beautiful art, and the site of groundbreaking discoveries in paediatric medicine’."

- Sarah McBryde - The Art Newspaper,

Among the wonders of the Italian Renaissance was Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, Europe’s first orphanage. In an era when children were often trafficked or left to die or roam the streets, an orphanage devoted to their care and protection was a striking innovation. A symbol of Florence’s cultural and architectural brilliance, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the institution known as the Innocenti became a haven for more than 400,000 children across five centuries. With deep knowledge of the literary and artistic environment in which this new understanding of childhood flowered, Joseph Luzzi explores how the Innocenti taught children mercantile skills, rudimentary literature and, for a few, the arts. He does not shy away from addressing the flaws in the institution’s pursuit of its high-minded mission but gives readers the first comprehensive “biography” of a ground-breaking humanitarian institute.
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How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendour of Renaissance art

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"[Luzzi] paints a wonderfully sensual and cinematic picture of early modern Florence in all its grubby, gorgeous detail."

- Joe Moran - The Guardian,

"The Innocents of Florence is an example of a complicated humanism: An empathetic study of the perpetual interplay between good intentions, human frailties and imperfect outcomes"

- Tara Isabella Burton - The Wall Street Journal,

"Luzzi’s slender and compelling book, with its accounts of forced pregnancy, family separation, and child labor, feels surprisingly and unsettlingly of the moment."

- The New Yorker, 'Best Books of 2025',

Se alle

"A slim, compelling book about one of the first orphanages in Europe contains painful echoes of the present."

- The New Yorker,

"Luzzi concludes this thoughtful, engaging and concise account by emphasising just how revolutionary and influential the Innocenti has been, as ‘the first institution devoted exclusively to the care of abandoned children, a pioneer in surrounding its charges with beautiful art, and the site of groundbreaking discoveries in paediatric medicine’."

- Sarah McBryde - The Art Newspaper,

Among the wonders of the Italian Renaissance was Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, Europe’s first orphanage. In an era when children were often trafficked or left to die or roam the streets, an orphanage devoted to their care and protection was a striking innovation. A symbol of Florence’s cultural and architectural brilliance, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the institution known as the Innocenti became a haven for more than 400,000 children across five centuries. With deep knowledge of the literary and artistic environment in which this new understanding of childhood flowered, Joseph Luzzi explores how the Innocenti taught children mercantile skills, rudimentary literature and, for a few, the arts. He does not shy away from addressing the flaws in the institution’s pursuit of its high-minded mission but gives readers the first comprehensive “biography” of a ground-breaking humanitarian institute.
Les mer
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendour of Renaissance art

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781324065784
Publisert
2025-11-11
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
361 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Luzzi Joseph

Biografisk notat

Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

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