Summary Of Protecting The Innocent By Heidi Hornik

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The “Ospedale degli Innocenti” refers to the main hospital that was built just for the purpose of helping orphans and abandoned babies. This is the foundation and the beginning of orphanages which still exist now. The word “Innocenti” emphazies on how the aim of this hospital or institution was to help innocent people. The word innocent is not a word that defines just all people, however, it was represents babies that were born children that were born and didn’t know anything about what good and evil is. In an article, Protecting the Innocents, the author Heidi Hornik talks about how, “Unlike other Florentine hospitals that accepted some children along with the sick and poor, the Innocenti was totally devoted to newborns and foundlings from