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  2. Cesare Beccaria - Wikipedia

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    Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio [1] (Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa, ˈtʃɛː-]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, [2] jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.

  3. List of Italian philosophers - Wikipedia

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    First-century AD bust of Cicero in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Catius; Amafinius; Gaius Blossius; Papirius Fabianus; Aulus Cornelius Celsus; Cato the Younger; Cicero; Helvidius Priscus ...

  4. Italian Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Cesare Beccaria, widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.. The Enlightenment in Italy (Italian: Illuminismo italiano) was a cultural and philosophical movement that began in the second half of the eighteenth century, characterized by the discussion of the epistemological, ethical, and political issues of the Enlightenment thought of the eighteenth ...

  5. On Crimes and Punishments - Wikipedia

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    On Crimes and Punishments (Italian: Dei delitti e delle pene [dei deˈlitti e ddelle ˈpeːne]) is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. The treatise condemned torture and the death penalty and was a founding work in the field of penology.

  6. List of Italian writers - Wikipedia

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    Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) Stefano Benni (born 1947) Mario Benzing (1896–1958) Giuseppe Berto (1914–1978) Enzo Bettiza (1927–2017) Enzo Biagi (1920–2007) Luciano Bianciardi (1922–1971) Luther Blissett (born 1958) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) Matteo Maria Boiardo (1434–1494) Arrigo Boito (1842–1918 ...

  7. Italian philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Cesare Beccaria was a significant Enlightenment figure and is now considered one of the fathers of classical criminal theory as well as modern penology. Italy also had a renowned philosophical movement in the 1800s, with Idealism, Sensism and Empiricism. The main Sensist Italian philosophers were Melchiorre Gioja and Gian Domenico Romagnosi.

  8. Classical school (criminology) - Wikipedia

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    In criminology, the classical school usually refers to the 18th-century work during the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice and penology and indirectly through the proposition that "man is a calculating animal," in the causes ...

  9. French Penal Code of 1791 - Wikipedia

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    The French Penal Code of 1791 was a penal code adopted during the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, between 25 September and 6 October 1791.It was France's first penal code, and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria.