I take this opportunity of expressing my grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Havelock Ellis, who read my translation in manuscript, and made many valuable suggestions as to terminology.
M. EDEN PAUL.
Moorcroft, Parkstone, Dorset.
Christmas, 1910.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| PREFACE | [v] | |
| I. | ANTECEDENTS—LOMBROSO’S PREDECESSORS IN RESEARCH | [1] |
| II. | CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY | [18] |
| III. | OPPOSITION TO LOMBROSO’S VIEWS—WOMAN AS CRIMINAL—THE POLITICAL CRIMINAL—CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY | [55] |
| IV. | GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING LOMBROSO’S LIFE-WORK AS A SOCIAL REFORMER, HIS METHODS, AND HIS PHILOSOPHY | [106] |
| V. | THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY | [130] |
| VI. | CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE—PELLAGRA—AGRARIAN REFORM | [139] |
| VII. | ENVIRONMENT AND THE THEORIES AS TO THE NATURE OF GENIUS—LOMBROSO’S GENIUS AND PERSONALITY | [158] |
| APPENDIX A. LOMBROSO’S SPIRITUALISTIC RESEARCHES | [167] | |
| APPENDIX B. LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED | [177] | |
| APPENDIX C. FACTS AND DOCUMENTS OF POSITIVISM | [178] | |
| INDEX | [182] |
CESARE LOMBROSO
CHAPTER I
ANTECEDENTS—LOMBROSO’S PREDECESSORS IN RESEARCH
Cesare Lombroso was born in Verona, as an Austrian subject, on November 6, 1835, and was the second child in a family of five. His father Aron sprang from a Venetian mercantile family, whose origin can be traced back to a colony of North African Jews, trading with Leghorn, Genoa, and Venice. Again and again members of the Lombroso family settled in one or other of these ports. The branch to which he himself belonged had lived for several centuries in Venice and the Venetian territories on the mainland, of which from the year 1448 onwards Verona formed a part; they were patrician merchants, to whom the French occupation, occurring before Lombroso’s father grew up, had brought full and equal privileges of citizenship.[[1]] Several members of this Venetian family were distinguished by characteristic and vigorous action on behalf of the cause of enlightenment. In Virginia, North America, in the seventeenth century, the brother of a direct ancestor of Cesare Lombroso, at a great risk to himself of being burned alive, protested most energetically against the belief in witchcraft, and declared that the reputed witches were “hysterical” merely.
The French emancipation of Upper Italy was followed in 1814 by the Austrian reaction, but the family suffered at this time from the decline in economic prosperity (interrupted for a while in 1830, when Venice became a free port) upon which its own well-being and patrician position had been dependent.