Giovanni Aldini

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, only a few decades after Galvani's experiments, at a time when electricity, anatomy, and the possibility of electrically stimulating dead tissue had captured the public imagination.

Galvani's nephew, Giovanni Aldini, took things considerably further.

He became famous for public demonstrations in which electrical currents were applied to the bodies of executed criminals.

Muscles contracted, faces moved, eyes reportedly opened, limbs jerked.

Named after Luigi Galvani, galvanism involved applying electric currents to animal and human tissue.

Public demonstrations by Galvani's nephew Giovanni Aldini thrilled and unsettled audiences across Europe.

Question 4.

Complete Frankenstein's subtitle.