Cesare Beccaria
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria)
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana (March 15, 1738 – November 28, 1794) was an Italian philosopher and politician best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Cesare Beccaria" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
