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100	1		_aGuerzoni, Giuseppe, _d1835-1886
245	1	3	_aLa tratta dei fanciulli
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-05-26
508			_aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - Milano)
520			_a"La tratta dei fanciulli: racconto sociale" by Giuseppe Guerzoni is a social novel written in the late 19th century. It denounces the organized trafficking of poor Southern Italian children who are sold to intermediaries and forced to beg and perform across Europe, following the siblings Carluccio and Stefanella from Calabria to Paris. Mixing narrative and exposé, it indicts public apathy, clerical complicity, and governmental indifference. The opening of the work begins with a fervent preface arguing that the scandal persists despite debate and promises of reform. The story then moves to the bleak Calabrian village of Ritorto, where lo Storpiato, a maimed ex‑brigand, and his wife Marinella, in desperate poverty, sell their children Carluccio and Stefanella to a trafficker, with a priest’s paid blessing sealing the deal. Shipped with dozens of other children to Marseille and on to Paris, they are numbered, confined in a stinking dormitory, and drilled in the arts of street performance and strategic begging by a clandestine network. Initially successful on the boulevards, they face envy, harsher quotas, and punishments that deny food unless cash targets are met, until Stefanella collapses from hunger and is briefly hospitalized before being reclaimed by the organization. The section closes with the narrative widening its critique to the charitable and civic systems that fail to protect such children. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cMilano: Treves, 1869
653			_aChild labor -- Italy -- Fiction
653			_aSocial problems -- Italy -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttp://www.braidense.it/dire/trattadeifanciulli.pdf
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76164
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