This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Cesare Lombroso was an Italian physician and criminologist who founded the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso’s theory of anthropological criminology was a mix of the concepts of Social Darwinism, physiognomy, psychiatry, and degeneration theory. Essentially Read More
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Jesus Junk
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Daily Planet publication appears to be somewhat of a mystery. It is clearly a reference to the famed Daily Planet newspaper from the Superman franchise, but I couldn’t find any further information about the title. Read More
Witches Sabbath
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Tableau de l’insonstances des mauuais anges et demons was published in 1612 and shines a light on the European witch trials of the 16th and 17th-centuries. It was written by Pierre De Lancre, a magistrate, who Read More
Another day, another surprise!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. People often inquire about the wide variety of materials, both format and subject matter, from the Santo Domingo Collection so I thought it might be interesting to those who regularly read the blog to give Read More
Story of Eleonore
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. L’homme considéré dans l’état d’aliénation mentale : ouvrage divisée en trois livres … is a 19th-century French volume about the state of insanity, which starts off with a frontispiece of the beautiful Eleonore. As the text accompanying her visage Read More