About Cesare Beccaria:
Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio is recognized as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. He promoted criminal justice.