LOMBROSO, Cesare.

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Su la pazzia di Cardano. Rare offprint, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front cover: "To Mr Luigi Zamperini, as a sign of friendship and esteem, the author" ("Al Sig[no]r Luigi Zamperini, in segno d'amicizia e stima, l'Autore"). Zamperini was a lawyer active in Verona, Lombroso's hometown; contemporary sources indicate that they corresponded about a criminal case connected to the local prison.Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) was an Italian physician, criminologist, and anthropologist, known as one of the early writers in criminology and criminal anthropology. The article was published in the psychiatry supplement of the 1 October 1855 Gazzetta medica italiana. It is one of Lombroso's first publications on madness, analysing the psychological state of Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), a prominent 16th-century Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer who is remembered for both his scientific brilliance and his eccentric, often troubled personal life. Lombroso later expanded these ideas into his best-known work, which was translated and published into English as The Man of Genius (1891).We have traced no copies in auction records and only one institutional holding.

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