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Cesare Lombroso Correspondance

In the forge of positivism

The Lombroso Project is an effort to research, catalogue, organise, digitise and make available the unpublished works of Cesare Lombroso (Verona, 1835 – Turin, 1909) and his correspondents.

The correspondence

Immagine raffigurante carta e pennaThis is a virtual reconstruction of Cesare Lombroso’s professional and personal letters. La ricostruzione virtuale dell’intero corpus della corrispondenza di Lombroso. Over 2600 letters, notes, postcards received and sent between 1860 and 1909.

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Unpublished Works

This is comprised of a variety of works by Lombroso – including conference minutes, drafts of articles, manuscripts of minor and even trivial interventions…

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The “Uncommon Writings”

Lombroso collected the writings and artistic creations of prisoners and of` individuals sectioned in psychiatric hospitals. The collection was continued by Mario Carrara, Lombroso’s son-in-law and successor….

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Drawings of psychiatric patients

Drawings of psychiatric patients The archive of the Museum contains hundreds of drawings made by inmates in asylums, Italian and foreign, which Cesare Lombroso collects …

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Onoreficienze a Cesare Lombroso - Diploma 1884
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Honors to Cesare Lombroso

Honors to Cesare Lombroso The Archive of the Museum holds various diplomas and honors awarded to Lombroso on the occasion of conferences or exhibitions. This …

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Photographs at liberty

The archive of the Museum preserves an extraordinary photographic patrimony composed of over 6000 phototypes, realized about between 1860 and 1937, most of them linked …

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