Product Description: "Des délits et des peines" par Cesare Beccaria. Cesare Beccaria était un juriste, philosophe, économiste et homme de lettres italien (1738-1794).

Product Description: L'opera, stampata per la prima volta a Livorno da Marco Coltellini, incontrò un notevole successo ed ebbe vasta eco in tutta Europa. Fu apprezzata nella Milano illuminista, fu vista come il prodotto dell'attività innovatrice in Francia (dove incontrò l'apprezzamento entusiastico dei filosofi dell'Encyclopédie, di Voltaire e dei philosophes più prestigiosi che lo tradussero con le note di Denis Diderot) e lo considerarono come un vero e proprio capolavoro, e messa subito in pratica dalla zarina Caterina II di Russia...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Beccarria's influential Treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundation work in the modern field of criminology. As Newman and Marongiu note in their introduction to the work, three master themes of the Enlightenment run through the Treatise: the idea of the social contract, the idea of science, and the belief in progress...read more

Product Description: Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day...read more

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Product Description: Con un estudio introductorio de Sergio García Ramírez, esta obra representa el punto de partida moderno en los anales de la filosofía del derecho judicial y constituye, asimismo, una suma de las ideas sobre la materia que concurren hasta alcanzar su definición más plena en la obra de Montesquieu y los enciclopedistas franceses...read more

Product Description: First published in 1764, and the first sustained critique in the Western tradition of capital punishment, this essay is a touchstone of legal and ethical reasoning. The likes of Voltaire, Jefferson, and Franklin have cited Beccaria as a model of clarity and morality in thinking about this often impassioned topic...read more

Product Description: In this edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings, Richard Bellamy draws on recent Italian scholarship to show how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a political philosophy that combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)