Voltaire and Cesare Beccaria

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

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Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and the death penalty, is said to mark the peak of Enlightenment in Milan. Its translations were widely read by statesmen and policy makers in Britain, America and France. This translation also features the anonymous commentary, attributed to Voltaire. - Summary by Carolin

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Voltaire and Cesare Beccaria

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Apr 16, 2024

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Episodes

Chapter XLV - Of Education 16.04.2024
Chapter XLIV - Of Rewards 16.04.2024
Chapter XLIII - Of Magistrates 16.04.2024
Chapter XLII - Of the Sciences 16.04.2024
Chapter XLI - Of the Means of Preventing Crimes 16.04.2024
Chapter XL - Of False Ideas of Utility 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXIX - Of a Peculiar Kind of Crimes 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXVIII - Of Suggestive Interrogations 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXVII - Of Attempts, Acomplices and Pardon 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXVI - Of Rewards for Apprehending or Killing Criminals 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXV - Of Sanctuaries 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXIV - Of Bankrupts 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXIII - Of Smuggling 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXII - Of Suicide 16.04.2024
Chapter XXXI - Of Crimes of Difficult Proof 16.04.2024
Chapter XXX - Of Prosecution and Prescription 16.04.2024
Chapter XXIX - Of Imprisonment 16.04.2024
Chapter XXVIII - Of the Punishment of Death 16.04.2024
Chapter XXVII - Of the Mildness of Punishments 16.04.2024
Chapter XXVI - Of the Spirit of Family in States 16.04.2024
Chapter XXV - Of Banishment and Confiscation 16.04.2024
Chapter XXIV - Of Idleness 16.04.2024
Chapter XXIII - Of Infamy considered as a Punishment 16.04.2024
Chapter XXII - Of Robbery 16.04.2024
Chapter XXI - Of the Punishment of the Nobles 16.04.2024

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