Ridolfo Livi

Ridolfo Livi (13 July 1856, in Prato – 12 April 1920, in Florence) was an Italian anthropologist.^[1]

He graduated in medicine at University of Pavia. He enlisted in the royal army and became a major general in 1917 three years before his death.

In 1888 he was entrusted with a vast anthropological investigation to be the carried out on approximately 300,000 military classes of 1859 and 1863. He concluded his work in 'Antropometria Militare',^[2] which consisted of two volumes, the first in 1896 and second in 1905.

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