Gina Lombroso

Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso was born on 5 October 1872 in Pavia. She was the second of five children to her father, Italian anthropologist Cesara Lombroso. She gained a diploma in medicine in 1891, after studying literature and philosophy. Her thesis was titled I vantaggi della degenerazione (The advantages of degeneration). She was the wife of Italian historian and writer Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942) and hence adopted the surname Ferrero-Lombroso. Their son Leo Ferrero (1903–1933), a writer and playwright, died in a car accident in Santa Fe (USA). She is buried with her husband and son at the Cimetière des Rois in Geneva, Switzerland. == Notable works ==

• Sulle condizioni sociali economiche degli operai di un sobborgo di Torino (1896) • I coefficienti della vittoria negli scioper (1897) • ''Sulle cause e sui rimedi dell'analfabetismo sociale'' (1898) • I vantaggi della degenerazione (1904) • Cesare Lombroso. Appunti sulla vita. Le opere (1906) • ''Nell'America Meridionale (Brasile-Uruguay-Argentina)'' (1908) • Cesare Lombroso. Storia della vita e delle opere narrata dalla figlia (1921) • La donna nella vita. Riflessioni e deduzioni (1923) • Anime di donna. Vite vere (1925) • La donna nella società attuale (1927) • Le tragedie del progresso meccanico (1930) == References ==