Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists--Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria

Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists--Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Pelli Bencivenni, Giuseppe, 1729-1808, Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794, Garnsey, Peter (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Capital punishment > Early works to 1800.
Punishment > Early works to 1800.
Capital punishment.
Punishment.
Early works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli (1729--1808)
  • Texts
  • Giuseppe Pelli: Against the Death Penalty. Text and Fragments
  • Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria: Correspondence (1766--67)
  • Context
  • Tuscany
  • Man
  • Life-Cycle of Against the Death Penalty
  • Milieu
  • Career
  • Conclusion
  • Argument of Against the Death Penalty
  • Preliminaries
  • Proofs
  • Lex talionis
  • Conclusion
  • Cesare Beccaria Bonesana (1738--1794)
  • Texts
  • Beccaria, against the Death Penalty and for Forced Labour
  • Law of Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, against the Death Penalty (1786, excerpts)
  • Opinion (`Voto') of Beccaria, Gallarati Scotti and Risi, against the Death Penalty (1792)
  • Context
  • Lombardy
  • On Crimes and Punishments
  • Career
  • Milieu, Authorship, Character
  • Patronage and Publication
  • Argument against the Death Penalty
  • Preliminaries
  • Chapter 28 in Outline
  • Commentary
  • Postscript: From Forced Labour to Penal Servitude
  • Preliminaries
  • Beccaria on Forced Labour
  • Beccaria and Bentham
  • Beccaria and Jefferson.

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