Beccaria's Youth in Milan
1752
The future reformer Cesare Beccaria, still a schoolboy at Parma, was absorbing the Enlightenment literature that would inspire his great 1764 Dei delitti e delle pene - the first modern attack on torture and the death penalty. That book, when it appeared, would be translated across Europe and quoted by Jefferson and Catherine alike.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.