Tag: Abandoned Infants

  • Abandoned Newborns and The Wheel

    Ruota dei Proietti (Foundling Wheel or Wheel of Castoffs) I first became interested in abandoned newborns in 19th century Sicily when I found that one of my extended family in Petralia Sottana was an abandoned newborn. He was given a first name and surname, but the surname was very different than any of the family…