"Naples Sweet as Salt": Name? Planted

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In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the number of abandoned newborns in Italy was at its highest in history. In Milan, between 1791 and 1800, an average of 1,591 babies were abandoned per year, in Turin during the same period – 512, in Naples – 2,378. In the capital of Campania, the phenomenon was a disaster in its dimensions.