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Ugolino, the Cannibal Count

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‘Father our pain’, they said,
‘Will lessen if you eat us you are the one
Who clothed us with this wretched flesh: we plead
For you to be the one who strips it away’.
… And I,
Already going blind, groped over my brood
Calling to them, though I had watched them die,
For two long days. And then the hunger had more
Power than even sorrow over me

        (Canto XXXIII, ln.)

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Weird Italy aldini-experiment-007 Giovanni Aldini: the scientist who inspired Frankenstein's story Featured Italian History Italian People Magazine weird science Scientist reanimator mad scientist Luigi Galvani lovecraft Giovanni Aldini George Forster Galvanism frankestein emilia romagna bologna

Giovanni Aldini: the scientist who inspired Frankenstein’s story

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Giovanni Aldini (1762 – 1834) was an Italian physicist born at Bologna, nephew of Luigi Galvani, and he became a professor of physics at Bologna in 1798. 

His scientific work was concerned with galvanism and its medical applications and with experiments for preserving human life from destruction by fire.

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Weird Italy federico-ii What is everybody's natural language ? The cruel experiment in language deprivation of Frederick II Featured Italian History Italian People Magazine Salimbene di Adam Pharaoh Psammetichus natural language language deprivation Holy Roman Empire Herodotus Frederick II

What is everybody’s natural language ? The cruel experiment in language deprivation of Frederick II

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Throughout history were conducted experiments involving language deprivation trying to discover the origin of language.

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