books.google.com - In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. Struck by the unusually high mortality rate, Nicholas Terpstra...http://books.google.com/books/about/Lost_Girls.html?id=gV6W8z4ojSoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLost Girls
