Publication

2008-03-06 - Houghton Mifflin Company

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100618551069
  • ISBN-139780618551064
  • LibraryThing4566966
  • Goodreads1189500
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007008519
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCKKH41.B65 K47 2008
  • LCCKKH41.B65K47 2008
  • DDC344.45/4104121

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Amalia's TaleHardcoverHoughton Mifflin Company2008-03-06

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