Volterra is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
Cervello ("Brain") is the name of an Italian progressive rock band of the early 1970s.
Società Sportiva Dilettanistica Viareggio 2014, usually referred to simply as Viareggio 2014 or just Viareggio, is an Italian football club located in Viareggio, Tuscany.
Franco Basaglia was an Italian psychiatrist, neurologist, professor who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, pioneer of the modern concept of mental health, Italian psychiatry reformer, figurehead and founder of Democratic Psychiatry architect, and principal proponent of Law 180 which abolished mental hospitals in Italy. He is considered to be the most influential Italian psychiatrist of the 20th century.
Mario Di Fiorino is an Italian psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Versilia in Lido di Camaiore (LU), Italy. The author of numerous scientific papers and books, his main areas of research are related to mental manipulation, violence, and dissociative disorders.
Giorgio Antonucci was an Italian physician, known for his questioning of the basis of psychiatry.
Giuseppe Arrighi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Federico Amodeo was an Italian mathematician, specializing in projective geometry, and a historian of mathematics.
The Town of Light is a psychological horror adventure game developed by LKA. It was released for PC on February 26, 2016 and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 6, 2017. On February 1, 2018, a Nintendo Switch version was confirmed. This version was released on February 7, 2020. The physical release of the Nintendo Switch version was cancelled in April 2019.
Viola Carofalo is an Italian politician, national spokesperson and leader of Power to the People, a coalition of parties, movements and associations which contested the 2018 Italian general election.
Giorgio Giuseppe Antonio Maria Coda is an Italian psychiatrist and professor. He was vicedirector of the mental hospital of Turin and director of villa Azzurra, in Grugliasco (Turin) After the trial, that lasted from 1970 to 1974, he was sentenced for mistreatment to five years in prison, to the payment of court costs and to the interdiction from the medical profession for five years. He's been nicknamed "the electrician" for his misuse of the electroshock therapy.
The Sant'Anna Hospital is the main hospital of the province of Como, Italy. It is located in San Fermo della Battaglia on via Ravona.
Buriano is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Montecatini Val di Cecina, province of Pisa.
Francesco Persiani is an Italian politician.
The Hospital of Fregionaia is a set of buildings in a former monastery, made into hospital for indigent, then a psychiatric hospital, and which in 2019 lies unused and abandoned, and which is located on Via di Fregionaia in the hills outside Santa Maria a Colle - Maggiano, province of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is representative of the large psychiatric hospitals established in the post-enlightenment period of the 18th-19th century.
Alessandro Agostinelli is an Italian writer, journalist and poet.
The Mombello Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the "Giuseppe Antonini of Limbiate Psychiatric Hospital" , was the largest asylum in Italy, covering 40,000 m2 (430,000 sq ft) with multiple buildings located as to form a "small village". It is located in the Italian commune of Mombello, in the administrative district of Monza and Brianza, Lombard Province. Officially inaugurated in 1878, it was the last psychiatric hospital to be closed after the approval of the Legge Basaglia in 1978.
Germano Sartelli was an Italian sculptor.
