L'infanticide à Gênes à l'époque moderne / Elena Taddia.

Introduction : infanticide, etymology and evolution; iconography. Chapter I : literature, early modern times, the age of enlightenment, Beccaria and Pestalozzi. 19th century and positivism. The 20th century : influence on the studies on infanticide of the history of mentalities and historiography in Italy. Chapter II : profile of the Republic of Genoa in early modern times, sources and archives accessed, demography. Where and how infanticides were discovered. Children and saints. The anatomical theatre of Pammatone. Chapter III. Italian jurists and infanticide in early modern times. Ecclesiastical justice and infanticide : the diocese of Genoa and the penance. Women and justices in Genoa. Chapter IV. Development of charity in Genoa and etablishment of the Pammatone hospital : exposed, legitimate and illegitimate children, nurses and infanticide. Chapter V. Investigations for child murder in Genoa : illegitimate couples, incest, abortion. The case of the Castagnola brothers.