Unidentified photographer
1890, 6 December
Giuseppe Falqui, Turin [Hypnotist]

Photograph, card-mount
Museo di Antropologia criminale Cesare Lombroso
Inventory / accession no requested.
 
Giuseppe Falqui, born in Alessandria to a Turin mother and Sardinian father, is magnetizer, magician and lives doing magic shows. It's not rarely proposed as a '' hypnotic subject '' to be studied for payment by scientists interested in the phenomenon of thought transmission. On December 6, 1890, he is in Turin and presents himself at the School of Psychiatry of Cesare Lombroso to be examined by him: on that occasion, this photograph is taken in the premises of Regia University.
 
In 1891 he was involved in the case of the '' Book of Command ", a text of popular origin considered magical and bearer of wealth for those who own it. For the prosecution he is the instigator of an armed robbery made in Sassuolo, in the province of Modena, by five guys who wanted to take over the book. After being well paid, Falqui, pretending to be hypnotized, has suggested criminals so much that they can commit the robbery.
 
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