Museo degli Innocenti
Renaissance foundling hospital with a revolving anonymous window and drawers of tokens once split between mothers and children.
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This guide to the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence starts at the loggia's revolving window, where mothers for four centuries left infants they could not keep without anyone seeing their face. It traces back to the tenth of February fourteen forty-five, when a girl named Agata Smeralda became the first child received this way, and to the small tokens, coins, rings, ribbons, that mothers left behind as private proof of a claim they might one day return to make. Pause at the loggia itself and picture the window that once turned there.
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