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Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789.

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1997

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Introduction 1. Sixteenth-century municipal plans for poor relief 2. Civic charity in the age of state formation 3. Motivations for charity 4 Charity and gender 5. Hospitals and poor relief in the age of absolutism 6. The state system of relief Conclusion Bibliography.