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Innocents of Florence The Renaissance Discovery of Catherine Coldstream Care: Clean with soap andThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence's Hospital of the Innocents, the first but certainly not the last child to be left at its doors. In an era when children were frequently abandoned, often trafficked or left to die on the streets, an orphanage devoted to their care and protection was a striking innovation. The Innocenti, as it has come to be called the first orphanage in Europe devoted