FLORENCE - A particular exhibition dedicated to the signs of recognition that, broken in half, accompanied the children when they entered the institute, has opened at the Museum of the Innocents in Florence, the institute that for centuries has welcomed the orphans of the city, often left in the wheel.
On display, a selection of about 71 of the 40,000 objects still preserved.
Among these, for the first time, the oldest note preserved in the Institute and never shown before is visible, that of Tommaso Domenico left on 21 December 1449.
The review, entitled 'And the other half will keep me ...', from the memento that parents who were forced to abandon their children, usually the mothers, made to themselves is focused on the signs of recognition.
The small objects left to children at the time of their entrustment to the institution to which they were delivered with the aim of ensuring their survival are thus exhibited.
The exhibition will be open until January 31 in the historical section of the museum and, in detail, offers the vision of coins and medals, but also votive accessories, such as rosaries, medals and crosses, or objects of general use such as jewelry, buttons and tapes.
It is also highlighted that since the unification of Italy,
The exhibits are almost all broken because the signals constituted up to 1875 the only 'identity document' capable of being able to reunite, perhaps in the future, parents with children.
The Archivio degli Innocenti holds over 40 thousand of them, from which those on display have been selected, accompanied by illustrative panels, rigorous from a scientific point of view but also accessible to the general public because the aim of the exhibition is dissemination.
For the president of the Istituto degli Innocenti, Maria Grazia Giuffrida, the exhibition "represents a real journey through history and carries with it an important load of emotion".
For the councilor for welfare Sara Funaro "
