La cura dei folli nel Progetto di Stabilimento per alienati proposto da Biagio Gioacchino Miraglia

The essay is a study of the evolution of the mental institutions legislation after the Italy Unification. The author highlights the problems that Italy had to face regarding the adjustment of institutional arrangements in the healthcare, which urgently needed legislation to make uniform the mental institutions management and organization. Alienists were pressing for a primary and active role in the debate on the mental institutions legislation. Among these was certainly Biagio Gioacchino Miraglia who proposed in South Italy an important project