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aristocratic family of Turin. Although his name is already well 

 known in scientific circles, he is still little more than a youth. To- 

 gether with Lombroso he wrote the Criminal Woman, spoken of at 

 length in these pages, and which 

 at once brought him to the front, 

 as all the world knew that it was 

 he who collated and collected the 

 facts therein contained. His first 

 independent work was that most 

 remarkable one dealing with 

 Symbols, of which we have also 

 spoken before. His latest publi- 

 cation deals with Crispi, whose 

 personality he subjected to a sci- 

 entific analysis qualifying him as 

 a born madman. Ferrero, too, is 

 a convinced socialist, and on this 

 account was arrested during the 

 reign of terror that prevailed in 

 the course of the last months of 

 Crispi's dictatorship. He was or- 

 dered to leave Italy, and, profit- 

 ing by this enforced exile, he 

 visited Germany and learned the language and the condition of an- 

 thropological studies in that land. He has but recently returned. 

 His magazine articles are always able, and marked by a high and in- 

 dependent tone. 



A. G. Bianchi, a Milanese by birth, is also young. Not rich, 

 like Ferrero, he had to make his own way, and entered into journal- 

 ism as a means to obtain daily bread. He began life as a railway 

 official, writing at the same time reviews of new books, Italian and 

 foreign. Together with a colleague he founded a paper called 

 La Cronica Rossa, and it was in these pages that he began to occupy 

 himself with scientific literature, and to prove himself an enthusi- 

 astic follower of Lombroso. He entered the best Italian newspaper, 

 Corriere della Sera, as its legal editor, and thus became even more 

 enamored of criminal anthropology. Intelligent, industrious, studi- 

 ous, he dedicated himself to the new science with ardor, and in a 

 short time became allied to Lombroso and Morselli, who both ap- 

 plauded his zeal and his methods of working. Together with 

 Sighele he issued a publication on Criminal Anthropology, richly 

 illustrated with pictures, diagrams, and statistics, which met with 

 favor even outside of strictly scientific circles. A remarkable 

 book published by him is the Romance of a Born Criminal, the 



Guglielmo Ferrero. 



