On Crimes and Punishments

Name: On Crimes and Punishments
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Author: Cesare Beccaria
ISBN: 9798709712065

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146 pages2021Independently PublishedISBN 9798709712065

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Published in 1764 and included two years later in the Index of Forbidden Books, On Crimes and Punishments is the best known work of the Italian Enlightenment. It was immediately a great success in Europe and United States, and was appreciated by characters such as Voltaire, Blackstone and Bentham. The first four U.S. Presidents were inspired by Beccaria's treatise, and America's foundational legal documents were shaped by it.In his aspiration for a more modern and just society, Beccaria demonstrates the uselessness, injustice, dangerousness and inhumanity of the death penalty and torture.The work is followed by Voltaire's A Commentary on the Book of Crimes and Punishments.

Publication Details

Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9798709712065
Language: en

About Cesare Beccaria

François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with Montesquieu, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire