Beccaria

/ bɛkaˈria /

noun

1. BeccariaCesare Bonesana17381794MItalianLAW: legal theoristPOLITICS: political economistWRITING: 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

Example Sentences

Chammah notes that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams read Cesare Beccaria’s 1764 essay “On Crimes and Punishments,” whose arguments against capital punishment inspired the Philadelphia doctor Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to suggest that capital punishment “lessens the horror of taking away human life and thereby tends to multiply murders.”

From Washington Post

Beccaria Rolfi, who was born April 8, 1925 into a rural farm family in the northern Piedmont region, joined the anti-Nazi-Fascist resistance in December 1943, and was arrested four months later.

From Washington Times

Beccaria Rolfi, who was born April 8, 1925 into a rural farm family in the northern Piedmont region, joined the anti-Nazi-Fascist resistance in December 1943, and was arrested four months later.

From Seattle Times

Gabriella wore a lace embroidered dress by designer Luisa Beccaria.

From Reuters

The bride’s gown was designed by Luisa Beccaria, while the monarch wore a pink A-line coat, and a lilac and pink silk dress by Stewart Parvin.

From Seattle Times