Genius and madness

Cesare Lombroso is an outstanding Italian psychiatrist and a criminalist who devoted life to the study of the nature of the madness and psychology of the criminal. Brilliance and insanity is one of the most famous and fascinating works, in which the author traces a clear connection between the genius and mental anomalies formed under the influence of the environment and society. Conducting many historical and biographical facts, Lombroso examines the physiological similarity between the great people (among others it is Aristotle, Rousseau, Hoffman, Schopenhauer, Mozart, Van Gogh, Gogol, Linny, Newton, Goethe) and others, affirms the influence of heredity and meteorological phenomena on their fate and character