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The Bruneri-Canella case, called in Italian the case of the Smemorato di Collegno (the Collegno Amnesiac), is a notorious judicial and media affair concerning the alleged reappearance in 1926 of a man who had gone missing in World War I.
Oct 10, 2023 · The Bruneri-Canella Case. The curious case of an apparent amnesiac in Collegno paved the way for forensic science to become one of the pillars of Italian law. Alexander Lee | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 10 October 2023.
Nov 7, 2016 · The woman alleged that Mario Bruneri, who had been living in Milan at the time, met Canella, and stole his identity in a plan to escape his criminal past. Related: Woman Declared Dead in 1989 Found Alive Long After Man Confesses to Killing Her
- Steven Casale
Jan 1, 2004 · The court was called upon to decide on the real identity of the amnesic. Mrs Canella and Mrs Bruneri in fact both claimed that the amnesic was their husband. Figure 4 shows some press cuttings, which summarise what was defined as by the press ‘the Bruneri-Canella case’.
- Stefano Zago, Giuseppe Sartori, Guglielmo Scarlat
- 2004
Lo smemorato di Collegno fu l'uomo amnesico la cui vicenda divenne un caso giudiziario e mediatico (caso Bruneri-Canella) di notevole risonanza in Italia tra il 1927 e il 1931.
Jul 1, 2004 · The case of the 'Smemorato di Collegno' (The Collegno Amnesic) is probably the most famous case of malingered retrograde amnesia ever known in Italy. In 1926, a man who appeared to have lost...
The celebrated Bruneri-Canella Case became As You Desire Me. On February 6, 1927 Milan's Carriere della Sera published the photograph of a bearded man with staring, vacant eyes, and asked its readers: "Who knows this man?"
