Visual cultures of foundling care in Renaissance Italy

Contents

Introduction: Save the Children -- Framing Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy -- Emblematizing the 'New' Charity: The Swaddled Infant Segno and the Dedicated Foundling Hospital -- Dead Infants, Cruel Mothers, and Heroic Popes at the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome -- Saving the (Holy) Innocents at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence -- The 'New' Charity Grows Old: Foundling Care in the Sixteenth Century -- Afterlives of the Swaddled Infant Segno.