Baccaria: On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings
by: Cesare Beccaria

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 177 pages. In this edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings, Richard Bellamy draws on recent Italian scholarship to show how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a political philosophy that combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes. This edition also includes a number of pieces from Beccaria's writings on political economy and the history of civilization that were not previously available in English. Clean copy.