...Adam Sitze This essay offers a rereading of Cesare Beccaria's 1764 On Crimes and Punishments , the text usually considered the intellectual origin of the movement to abolish the death penalty. It argues that the singularity of Beccaria's text consists in the way it problematizes not only...

... with mercy. In the Pentecost of Calamity (1916), Wister noted that Cesare Beccaria s Of Crimes and Punishments was the foundation of the Ameri- 30. Wister, Roosevelt, 106. Walter Benjamin, Origins of German Tragedy, quoted in Carl Dahlhaus, Richard Wagner s Music Dramas, trans. Mary Whittel (London, 1979...

... to state violence. In the final essay of this volume, Adam Sitze further develops those questions. Sitze suggests that abolitionist theory and practice are unwittingly confused and constrained by their primary intellectual origin, Cesare Beccaria’s criticism of the death penalty in On Crimes...

... Voltaire or Rousseau, with their inner quirks and complexities, are always more than their century and spread beyond any label. Secondary figures like Beccaria, complacently applying reason to the complex problem of crime and punishment, or Gibbon, short and plump, darting looks of scorn at a great Gothic...

... with a biography of Beccaria. Law reform and codification are developed in the sketch of the life of Bentham. The biography of John Marshall enables Mr. Seagle to consider the problem of the doctrine of judicial review in the United States. Perhaps the two most interesting chapters in the book are the concluding...

... of criminal law is given in connection with a biography of Beccaria. Law reform and codification are developed in the sketch of the life of Bentham. The biography of John Marshall enables Mr. Seagle to consider the problem of the doctrine of judicial review in the United States. Perhaps the two most...

... and spread beyond any label. Secondary figures like Beccaria, complacently applying reason to the complex problem of crime and punishment, or Gibbon, short and plump, darting looks of scorn at a great Gothic cathedral, the vestige of superstition, more snugly fit our simplistic conception of an epoch. Ex­...

... passages may easily be accidental. Verbal resemblances, even, are doubtful when limited to single words or phrases. An indebtedness to Beccaria in The Cloud, for instance, can hardly stand on a general similarity in a not very extraordinary idea, buttressed only by the similarity of one or two isolated...

... (such as was given only to honored bishops), and smiled when Duclos kissed his ring on departure (a privilege reserved only for cardinals). And this despite the fact that Duclos was the author of a book placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum! At Milan Beccaria called to see him. In the eyes of his contemporaries...

..., Condorcet despised the economic regulation of the mercantilist and tried effort­ lessly to persuade his nation of the necessity of laissez-faire eco­ nomics. He knew the work of Beccaria and made valuable contri­ butions to the problem of jurisprudence and criminal legislation. He was an intimate friend...

... of government. Jeremy Bentham, among his various services to Great Britain and the rest of the world, adopted from Priestly, Beccaria or some other writer on po­ litical relations, and gave wide currency to the expression the greatest happiness of the greatest number, as the foundation of his utilitarian...

... deputies have of the difficult and subtle theories of political economy. All the laws enacted were founded on the enlightened ideas of Say, Smith, Ricardo, Steward [sz'c], Filangieri, Beccaria, and other famous writers who have dedicated their talents to eluci­ date this essential part of human knowledge...

... of state like Turgot and Pombal, the French philosophes, and men of other countries associated with them in liter­ ary and sociological activity, e.g., Adam Smith, Hume, Gibbon, Beccaria, and D Holbach. It contained certain of the German litterateurs of the Sturm und Drang period, such as Lessing...