This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...divided between the institution and themselves. After staying four years, and having learned a trade, they have a right to a dowry of forty dollars. "The orphan house of Siena, founded by charitable legacies, is of ancient date; the regulations are similar to those of Leghorn, and the number received and maintained is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...divided between the institution and themselves. After staying four years, and having learned a trade, they have a right to a dowry of forty dollars. "The orphan house of Siena, founded by charitable legacies, is of ancient date; the regulations are similar to those of Leghorn, and the number received and maintained is 110. In the city of Arezzo, orphans are received in the hospital for beggars. The orphan female hospital of Borgo, at Buggiam, contains fifty girls. Of the smaller orphan hospitals of Tuscany, the best is that of Serranezzo. At Monte Pulciano, Cortona, Montalcino, &c., there are others similar to those of Monte Varchi and St. Sepalero.-" A lire is worth eightpence halfpenny. HOSPITAL OF MAGNOLFI. 161 ORPHAN HOSPITAL OF MAGNOLFI AT PRATO. "I began this chapter by a description of the Bigallo, an establishment of its kind more celebrated than any founded in Rome at the suggestion of Ignatius Loyola and Innocent XII., or those anywhere now existing in Europe; and I have much pleasure in ending it by giving a description of the orphan hospital lately built at Prato, at the expense of the carpenter Magnolfi, deservedly applauded in one of the last sittings of the scientific congress. Magnolfi, son of a carpenter, and a carpenter himself, was born at Prato in 1786. In 1832, he sat as magistrate of that town. It was proposed to reform the charity-schools, and some one moved that he should take the management of them. He began by an infantile school; such asylums not then prospering as they do now in Tuscany. Magnolfi was guided by having seen a first attempt made by Enrico Mayer with a few infants in Leghorn. The female school of Prato acquired new vigour through him, and then it was desired that he would also undertake the charge ...
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