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- Title
LA REAL CASA DEI MATTI DI PALERMO E IL MITO LETTERARIO DEL BARONE PISANI.
- Authors
CRAXI, LUCIA
- Abstract
This story is about a government, which considered the management of madness not a medical issue but a matter of law and order. and a 64 years old official who became the director of a madhouse having no medical nor managing expertise in mental disease, but just humanity and dedication. But most of all it's the story Of their attempt to project an image of themselves and of what they had done. that turned out in something completely different: a literary myth which went sofar to reach the pen of Aterandre Dumas and Edgar Allan Poe.
- Subjects
PALERMO, 1943-1977; HUMANITY; CHURCH dedication; POE, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Medicina nei Secoli: Arte e Scienza, 2020, Vol 32, Issue 3, p939
- ISSN
0394-9001
- Publication type
Article