Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551064
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Amalia's Tale by : David I. Kertzer
Download or read book Amalia's Tale written by David I. Kertzer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.