Famiglie povere nella Milano della Restaurazione. Note su assistenza agli orfani e condizione vedovile.

From the rich documentation preserved in the Historical Archive of the Institute Trivulzio of Milan, and related to the personal files of orphans and orphan Milan since 1800, and up to the sixties of the twentieth century, the article focuses on some family types, within which you can capture the peculiarities of the roles (father and mother), the relationship between the composition and abundance of poverty, the relationship between poverty and premature death of the father or mother, and a number of other variables that characterized the families of widows and widowers over a long period between the first and second half of the nineteenth century, at the turn of the process of national unification.