Amalia's Tale
Subtitle: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: March 6, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780618551064
Subjects: Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Europe - Italy; Legal History; History / Italy; History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Bologna; Criminal provisions; Italy; Malpractice; Medical laws and legislation; Medical personnel; Trials (Malpractice); History: World
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.