"[Luigi Ferrarese] is an enlightened and philanthropic physician of Naples, who has for several years been zealously pursuing the study of Phrenology, and endeavouring to promote its application to those branches of science, morals and legislation, which he perceives it so well calculated to benefit. He has met with much persecution, but he has persevered, and it is with pleasure we perceive that there is one mind at least, in Naples, imbued with the importance of his views"
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"The Works of Dr. Ferrarese" in: The Phrenological journal, (1839). p. 91
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Luigi Ferrarese
Luigi Ferrarese (December 12, 1795 – August 8, 1855) was an Italian physician and the leading proponent of in Italy in the Nineteenth Century, who advocated for a government embrace of phrenology as a scientific means of conquering many social ills in his Memorie Risguardanti La Dottrina Frenologica (1838).
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