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An Italian scientist; born in Venice, November 1836. He has attained world-wide celebrity as an investigator of pathology, psychiatry, nervous diseases, and allied departments of science. His principal works are: "Researches on Cretinism in Lombardy" (1859); "Genius and Insanity" (1864); "Clinical Studies on Mental Diseases" (1865); "Microcephaly and Cretinism" (1873); "Love in Suicide and in Crime" (1881); "The Criminal as related to Anthropology, Jurisprudence, and Prison Discipline" (4th ed. 1889); "The Man of Genius as Related to Psychiatry" (1889); "Female Criminals" (1893); "Anti-Semitism and the Modern Sciences" (1894); "The Anarchists" (1894); "Crime; its Causes and Remedies". Died 1909.