Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
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| Author | David I. Kertzer |
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| ISBN | 0618551069 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Used - Good |
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| Category | Humanities & Political Sciences |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Publication Date | March 2008 |
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.