LOMBROSO C. [Cesare] (1835-1909).
GENIUS AND INSANITY
IN CONNECTION WITH FORENSIC MEDICINE, CRITICISM AND HISTORY
Warsaw 1887, General Store at Gebethner and Wolff bookstore, pp. 365, [2], il. in the text, format 15x22 cm
Table of contents:
- Historical introduction
- Physiological characteristics of brilliant people and analogies of geniality with insanity
- Effects of meteorological phenomena on brilliant people and on insane people
- Effects of race and heredity on genius and insanity
- Examples of insane geniuses: Harrington, Comte, Schopenhauer, Cardano, Swift, Newton....
- Art of the insane.
- Painting. Music.
- Mattoids-graphomaniacs Prophets and revolutionaries Distinguishing features of brilliant people.
Appendices: Diaries and writings of the insane , Literature of the mattoids, graphomaniacs of criminals, skull anomalies of brilliant people
Cesare Lombroso [ˈtʃeːzare lomˈbroːzo], Italian: Ezechia Marco Lombroso (born November 6, 1835 in Verona, died October 19, 1909 in Turin) - Italian psychiatrist, physical anthropologist and criminologist, founder of the Italian positivist school in criminology, promoter of anthropometry.
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