Abstract
Maria Paretta, tall, well-built, black-haired with a rosy, freckled complexion, regular nose and small mouth, ran away from her home in Naples on September 8, 1903 at the age of 16. Attempts by the police to find her proved fruitless until, in November, her father received a letter from a friend who had seen Maria in Marseilles. There, assuming the false identity of Olimpia Vittozzi, age 22, she worked as a prostitute in a brothel on Rue Boufferie; the friend had seen Maria at her previous place of employment, a similar establishment on Rue Crantuni.
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© 2006 Carl Ipsen
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Ipsen, C. (2006). Emigrating Children. In: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983022_3
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