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Classics of Method

On Crimes and Punishments

Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794)

In preparation · announced for 2027

The small book that abolished the rack, with the Enlightenment commentaries — Voltaire’s among them — in an appendix.

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Reference: SSSP PROG-BECCARIA-C
Series: Classics of Method
Author: Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794)
Original title: Dei delitti e delle pene
Translation: Renewed translation from the Italian
First published: 1764
Announced for: 2027

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