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Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists - Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria / texts translated and with historical commentary by Peter Garnsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelli, Giuseppie, Author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Early works to 1800.
- Capital punishment.
- Punishment--Early works to 1800.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. This book presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives. The book examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 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
- The Man
- The Life-Cycle of Against the Death Penalty
- Milieu
- Career
- Conclusion
- Argument of Against the Death Penalty
- Preliminaries
- The Proofs
- Lex talionis
- Cesare Beccaria Bonesana (1738–1794)
- 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)
- Lombardy
- On Crimes and Punishments
- Milieu, Authorship, Character
- Patronage and Publication
- Argument against the Death Penalty
- Chapter 28 in Outline
- Commentary
- Postscript: From Forced Labour to Penal Servitude
- Beccaria on Forced Labour
- Beccaria and Bentham
- Beccaria and Jefferson
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- General Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).
- Contains:
- Pelli Bencivenni, Giuseppe, 1729-1808. Contro la pena di morte. English
- Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. Works. Selections. English.
- ISBN:
- 9780691211947
- 0691211949
- 9780691211374
- 069121137X
- OCLC:
- 1154857169
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