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Beccaria

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Beccaria (Italian) [bɛkaˈria]
n
(Biographies / Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana (1738-1794) M, Italian, LAW: legal theorist, POLITICS: political economist, WRITING: author) Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738- -94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment


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Foxx seemed to ignore the cars but jumped to his feet when Longoria, in a strapless cream gown by Luisa Beccaria, and Beauvais, in a sleek Monique L'Huillier evening dress, strutted by.
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In Italy, Carlo Goldoni's domestic dramas encouraged this view, but the idea that laws that violate human sentiment should be changed was also advanced by Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishments (1764), and was later used by freed slaves and abolitionists in their arguments against slavery, to cite only a few of the best known examples from the European context.
 
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