Against the Death Penalty : : Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria / / Giuseppie Pelli; ed. by Peter Garnsey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Pelli, Giuseppie,
• HerausgeberIn: Garnsey, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 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 pointles...

Table of 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
• Conclusion
• Cesare Beccaria Bonesana (1738–1794)
• Texts
• 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)
• Context
• Lombardy
• On Crimes and Punishments
• Career
• Milieu, Authorship, Character
• Patronage and Publication
• Argument against the Death Penalty
• Preliminaries
• Chapter 28 in Outline
• Commentary
• Postscript: From Forced Labour to Penal Servitude
• Preliminaries
• Beccaria on Forced Labour
• Beccaria and Bentham
• Beccaria and Jefferson
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• General Bibliography
• Index