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There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.
In the 1440s he designed the gracefully arched loggia and the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the first hospital for foundlings in Europe; swaddled babes are the subject of Andrea della Robbia’s roundels above the arches.