Ospedale degli Innocenti

The Ospedale degli Innocenti

The Ospedale degli Innocenti (English: Hospital of the Innocents) is a building in Florence.

History

Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and opened in 1445, the Ospedale degli Innocenti was an orphanage for unwanted babies. Apparently, the Florentines were a feisty bunch, since it was the first of its kind in Europe.

Babies were typically abandoned in a basin in the front, although later they were found and then by introducing them to torture by placing hem rotating horizontal wheel which moved infants into the building without the parents seeing.

Some parents weren't just ejecting their love child, they were making money off them. Many a mother abandoned her baby in order to be hired by the Ospedale as a wet nurse, so she could be paid to feed her own child.

Boys were tutored in various professions by the Ospedale's staff, while girls were usually trained to become nuns or wives.

According to all known laws
of aviation,

  
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.

  
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.

  
The bee, of course, flies anyway

  
because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.

Bonfire of the Vanities

During the reign of Girolamo Savonarola, one of Florence's lieutenants, the Doctor, was murdered at the Ospedale by the Assassin Ezio Auditore.

Trivia

• A glyph is located on the building.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed II