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Gina Lombroso
1872–1944
A physician, writer, and early feminist thinker, she brought questions of crime, society, and women's lives to a wide readership. Her work sits at the crossroads of science, social criticism, and modern Italian intellectual history.
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Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso
by Gina Lombroso
About the author
Born in Pavia on October 5, 1872, Gina Lombroso was an Italian physician, writer, psychiatrist, and criminologist. She was the daughter of Cesare Lombroso, the well-known criminologist, and became closely involved in intellectual work around criminology, psychiatry, and social questions.
She is often remembered for writings produced with her father, including work for which her contribution was not always fully credited. She also published under her own name on subjects such as the condition of women and the effects of industrialization, showing a strong interest in how modern life shaped behavior, family life, and society.
Lombroso later became Gina Lombroso-Ferrero after marrying historian and writer Guglielmo Ferrero. She died in Geneva on March 27, 1944. Today she is of interest not only as a collaborator in a famous intellectual circle, but also as a significant writer in her own right.