BECCARIA, CESARE BONESANA, MARCHESE DI

chĕˈzärā bōnāzäˈnä märkāˈzā dē bĕk-kärēˈä, 1738–94, Italian criminologist, economist, and jurist, b. Milan. Although of a retiring disposition, he held, in the Austrian government, several public offices, the highest being counselor of state. Through these and through his writings he influenced local economic reforms and stimulated penal reform throughout Europe. As a young man he published (1764) his famous Essay on Crimes and Punishments (tr. 1767; 2d American ed. 1819, repr. 1953). The book, widely acclaimed in Western Europe, was one of the first arguments against capital punishment and inhuman treatment of criminals. His ideas especially influenced Jeremy Bentham and the utilitarians. He made original contributions to economic theory, applying mathematics to economics, analyzing population problems, and anticipating the wage and labor theories of Adam Smith. Much of this work appears in Elementi di economia publica (1804), a posthumous collection of his lectures (1768–70) in political economy at Milan.

See M. Maestro, Caesare Beccaria and the Origins of Penal Reform (1973).

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...interest in Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) to the more realist approach of Edmund Burke (1729-1797; from whom he also di- verged on many issues as his thought developed). Acton came to oppose Ma- caulay as a historian of unsuggestive fixity...
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The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction
Book by Mario Praz, Angus Davidson; Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1956
Subjects: Art And Literature, English Fiction--19th Cent--History And Criticism, Middle Class--Great Britain, Romanticism--England
...in LImmagine Rome , No. 16 1950 , and in Il Tempo Rome , Jan. 14th, 1954 Con Marcel Proust alla ricerca di un pittore . It has recently been maintained that the subject of the portrait is the painter himself and his wife. See...
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Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives
Book by Thomas E. Hill Jr.; Clarendon, 2002
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...philosophischer Entwurf (1795), 8: 341-86. R Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason , tr. Allen Wood and George di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Translated from Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft...
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Chapters in Western Civilization - Vol. 1
Book; Columbia University Press, 1961
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...Catholic Church was not strong enough to preserve its own unity. The resulting fragments were largely identified with the racial di visions and jealousies that the Empire had brought into an uneasy cohesion. The ostensible reasons for the resulting divisions...
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Essential Criminology
Book by Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry; Westview Press, 1998
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...the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy of Cesare Beccaria 1735-1795 and Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832 . Individuals...of the Italian school of criminologists, including Cesare Lombroso 1835-1909 , Raffaele Garofalo 1852 1934...
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BECCARIA, CESARE BONESANA, MARCHESE DI che zara bonaza na marka za de bek-kare...Much of this work appears in Elementi di economia publica (1804), a posthumous...at Milan. See M. Maestro, Caesare Beccaria and the Origins of Penal Reform (1973...


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