Studii di psicopatologia criminale sopra un caso di imbecillità morale con idee fisse impulsive (parricidio, fratricidio e tentato matricidio all'età di 16 anni).

Tamburini, Augusto 1848–1919;
Seppilli, Giuseppe.

Reggio-Emilia : S. Calderini e figlio, 1883.

Description : [3 l.], [3]-91 p. ; ill.: 2 pl. photo. ; 24 cm.

Photographs : 2 clinical portraits (unverified).

Subject : Mental illness — Idée fixe.

Notes :

• At head of title: "Dall'Istituto psichiatrico di Reggio./ "Estratto dalla Rivista sperimentale di freniatria e di medicina legale, anno VIII.o 1882 F. I, II, III, IV."/ A study of Antonio Sbro."
• Named person: Antonio Sbro, 1863-.
• Tamburini (1877) succeeded founder Carlo Livi as director of the lunatic asylum of Reggio-Emilia.
• Co-founder (1896) of the journal "Rivista di patologia nervosa e mentale."

Tamburini is remembered more for incidental contributions than for anything innovative. As director of Regio-Emilia he proposed guidelines for assessing and documenting asylum inmates which included instrumentation with a craniomenter and dynamometer, writing, "The careful and conscientious study of the entire criminal population enclosed therein, conducted without prejudice and with precision and uniformity of method, would certainly furnish, in a few years, an immense amount of material that would serve to solve a great many problems pertaining to penal and criminal disciplines" (Tamburini, Augusto, and Giulio Benelli 1885 "L'antropologia nelle carceri," Rivista di Discipline Carcerarie 15 (4): 136-147). He made contributions to Lombroso's studies of criminal behavior and collaborated with his friend Luigi Luciani (1840-1890), providing him with a laboratory at Reggio-Emilia for conducting research on the physiology of the cerebellum.