Cesare Beccaria - Dei delitti e delle pene - 1896

cm. 23,5 x 15, pp. 358, hard cover, some foxing, contemporaneous inscription to the frontispiece, a few worm holes to the binding, in good condition.

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Milan edition from the late nineteenth century of the famous Enlightenment treatise that revolutionized the modern conception of penal law. The volume stands out for the extensive historical-critical introduction signed by Antonio Amoni and for the apparatus of notes and comments that recall the European debate surrounding the work, with references to Diderot, Morellet, Brissot de Warville, Mirabeau, Servan and other thinkers.

The edition explicitly adheres to the textual tradition consolidated between the Livorno print of 1766 (with a false indication of “Harlem”) and the Milanese edition Mussi of 1811, expressly corroborated on the autographs under the care of Giulia Beccaria, son of the author.