The Poveri Vergognosi: Fallen Nobility or an Ethical Abstraction Operating within the Boundaries Set by Poverty?

By Samantha Hughes-Johnson

Despite the emergence of various studies focussing on, and tangential to the poveri vergognosi (shamed or shame-faced poor, as they are otherwise referred to), this ambiguous, yet well-known locu­tion has managed to evade satisfactory explanation.…

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