| Description Of Item | Press cutting on a theatrical performance at the lunatic asylum of Aversa, Naples, Italy - from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Details how the asylum, under the management of Psychiatrist [Biagio] Miraglia, a great annual theatrical performance was given. Five patients successfully played Alfieri’s tragedy of ‘Timolean’ and ‘II Campenello’. One patient was noted as believing he ‘was really a woman, and that everybody, except the Emperor Nicholas, was mistaken as to his sex’. |