IDNO

P.7999.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Italian types, Ripley, pp. 256, 270, 250.

A set of frontal and profile head and shoulder portraits of a uniformed Italian man, used to illustrate the teutonic type of Italy. [JD 27/10/2009]

Place

S Europe; Italy; Vicenza; Lusiana

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

circa 1913

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Both images were published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.256, with the following captions:
“San Giacomo di Lusiana (Sette Comuni), Province of Vicenza. Blond. Index, 85.2.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, pp.255-256:
“The relative purity of the Piedmont Alpine type compared with that of Veneto is probably to be ascribed to its greater inaccessibility to these Teutons. Wherever any of the historic passes debouch upon the plain of the Po there we find some disturbance of the normal relations of physical traits one to another; as, for example, at Como, near Verona, and at the mouth of the Brenner in Veneto. The clearest indubitable case of Teutonic intermixture is in the population of Lombardy about Milan. Here, it will be observed on our maps, is a distinct increase of stature ; the people are at the same time relatively blond.* The extreme broad-headedness of Piedmont and Veneto is moderated. Everything points to an appreciable Teutonic blend. This is as it should be. Every invading host would naturally gravitate toward Milan. It is at the focus of all roads ever the mountains. Ratzel has contrasted the influence exerted by the trend of the valleys on the different slopes of the Alps. Whereas in France they all diverge, spraying the invaders upon the quiescent population in Italy all streams seem to concentrate upon Lombardy. The ethnic consequences are apparent there, perhaps for this reason. With the exception of Lombardy, the blood of the Teutonic invaders in Italy seems to have been diluted to extinction. Notwithstanding this, it is curious to note that the German language still survives in a number of isolated communities in the back waters of the streams of immigration.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]