The Man of Genius

417

P. C. Falletti, Del carattere di Fra Tommaso Campanella, Turin, 1889; Rivista Storica Italiana, vol. vi. fasciculo 2; Amabile, Fra T. Campanella e la sua congiura, Naples, 1882; Fra T. C. nei Castelli di Napoli, &c., vol. ii.; Fra T. Pignatelli e la sua congiura, 1887; Berti, Lettere inedite di T. Campanella, 1878; Idem, Nuovi documenti su Campanella, 1881.

418

Abbé Saglier, Vie de Saint Jean de Dios; M. duCamp, La Charité à Paris, 1885.

419

It is a curious point, that all these saints (Lazzaretti, Loyola, &c.) began by leading a wild life.

420

Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs Littéraires, 1882 (2nd ed.)

421

See the paper on David Lazzaretti, by Nocito and Lombroso, in the Archivio di Psichiatria, 1881, vol. i. fasc. ii. iii.; Verga, Lazzaretti e la pazzia sensoria, Milan, 1880; Caravaggio, Inchiesta e Relazione su Arcidosso, 1878, Gazzetta Ufficiale, for October 1, No. 321.

422

Signes physiques des manies raisonnantes, 1876.

423

Verga, Lazzaretti, 1880.

424

At Pesaro I had under my care several nuns from Roman convents, whose language I never heard surpassed in obscene blasphemy. I have also attended exceedingly devout Jews, whose first symptom was the wish to be baptised, and who, immediately after their recovery, became more orthodox than before.

425

Deposition of the witness Vichi.

426

His first arrest took place in the island of Monte Cristo, for preaching sedition among the fishermen. Thence, he was transferred to Orbetello (see Verga, Su Lazzaretti e la follia sensoria, 1880).

427

Nocito and Lombroso, Davide Lazzaretti (Archivio di Psichiatria, 1880, ii. Turin). In this article are detailed the causes of the error into which the experts fell – an error which cost the country an enormous expenditure and several human lives.

428

Lo Statute Civile del Regno Pontificio in Italia.

429

See Lombroso, Remarks on the Passanante Trial, 1876, pp. 16, 17.

430

Esquirol mentions a madwoman who said to him, “I have not the courage to kill myself; I must kill some one else, so that I can die.” She attempted the life of her daughter.

431

In spite of all this, six Italian mental specialists have declared Passanante free from all suspicion of insanity; and he is still confined in a convict prison.

432

See, for further details, Archivio di Psichiatria, vol. iv.

433

Las Neurosis de los Hombres celebres en la Historia Argentina, by José Maria Ramon Mejia, Buenos Ayres, 1878.

434

De Vita Propria.

435

Schurz, ii.

436

Ibid., p. 283.

437

January, 1765.

438

Of 45 insane writers referred to by Philomneste (op. cit.) there were – 15 who devoted themselves to poetry, 12 to theology, 5 to prophecy, 3 to autobiography, 2 to mathematics, 2 to mental pathology, 2 to politics. Poetry predominates for the reason above given, while, on the other hand, theology, philosophy, and the like are more prominent in the mattoids.

439

Page 200.

440

He declares that musk reminds him of scarlet and gold, and describes “perfumes which have the smell of infants’ flesh, or of the dawn,” &c., &c.

441

Manso, Vita, p. 249.