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Beccaria

British  
/ bɛkaˈria /

noun

  1. 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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Floral embroidery, bird brooches and rich velvet materials added a touch of romance at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday with Italian designer Luisa Beccaria presenting a soft, feminine womenswear collection.

From Reuters • Feb. 25, 2016

For day wear, Beccaria and her daughter Lucilla Bonaccorsi offered tartan-like, dark turquoise and black checked knitwear, tweed coats, flower-embroidered velvet jackets matched with cropped trousers and chiffon floral-printed dresses.

From Reuters • Feb. 25, 2016

In his closing speech to that Boston jury, John Adams quoted these lines from the Italian penologist, Cesare, Marchese di Beccaria:

From Time • Jun. 6, 2014

She presented it with a brilliant proposal for reforms based on the ideas of Montesquieu and Beccaria.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

One of these, Antonio di Beccaria, a physician of Ferrara, when he ought to have been mourning for his own deceased patients, wrote a poetical lamentation for Petrarch's death.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas