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Died. Dr. Gina Lombroso Ferrero, 73, crusading intellectual, Italy's first woman physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction - the evil of the machine...
...Author. For the study of history Guglielmo Ferrero had a good training -he began as a criminologist. His first book, The Delinquent Woman, was written in collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their eyes, ears, chins and crania. This theory, now unfashionable, caused acute embarrassment to men with recessive chins and adhesive ear lobes, used to send Novelist Leo Tolstoy (then in his primitive Christian period) into literary tantrums. Historian Ferrero has set off a number of tantrums himself...
Roman traditions go back to the last century when Lombroso advanced his theory of the "born criminal type"*and practically originated the science of criminology. Ideas have gone far since then, but the concept of the criminal as lit subject for scientific examination and treatment has persisted. Dr. Ottolenghi is an outstanding exponent. "Even today," said he, "many estimable authorities do not recognize the intimate relation between criminology and pathology. ... A pickpocket who for future identification is merely 'fingerprinted' may, if properly examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true...
...Receding foreheads, massive jaws, prognathous chins, unsymmetrical skulls, long ears, rectilinear noses, thick hair and thin beards-by such physical marks Lombroso would have identified born criminals...