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Anna Kuliscioff, late XIX early XX century.
Photographic Studio Guigoni and Rossi Milan, gelatin silver print on cardboard.
A prominent figure of Italy’s socialism and early feminism, Anna Kuliscioff was of Russian origin, then naturalized Italian. In 1887 she went to live for a short time in Turin where she specialized in obstetrics and frequently visited house Lombroso. She contributed to the journal Archivio di psichiatria (The Archive of Psychiatry).
Despite his collaboration and friendship Lombroso took a psychiatric evaluation on Anna Kuliscioff which he published in his book Delitto politico e le rivoluzioni (Political crime and revolutions) as an example of passion criminals, hiding her true identity under her family name (Rosenstein).
On the back of the photograph there is an inscription that reads “Anna Kulicioff nihilist”.