Cesare Beccaria
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Cesare Beccaria Bonesana, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punis
Portrait by Eliseo Sala
Frontpage of the original Italian edition Dei delitti e delle pene
Cesare Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene
Statue of Beccaria in Pinacoteca Brera, Milan
Alessandro Manzoni
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Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world
Cesare Beccaria
…are popular, some are still a source of heated controversy, even more than two centuries after the famed criminologist's death. Beccaria's grandson was Alessandro Manzoni, the noted Italian novelist and poet who wrote, among other things, The Betrothed, one of the first Italian historical novels, and "Il cinque maggio…
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by Francesco Hayez (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1841)
Manzoni's family in a drawing by Ernesta Legnani Bisi
Illustration for the tragedy Il Conte di Carmagnola by Francesco Hayez
Frontispiece of The Betrothed in the second definitive edition of 1840–1842