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.