The library of Cesare Beccaria

1. Book of Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations

   An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

   ch. 55 · ch. 69

   2 citations

   Or have they built on this passage in Deuteronomy:

2. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 authority 1 citation

   An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

   chapter xii.: on torture.

   1 citation

   I am ashamed of having said any thing on this subject, after what hath been already said by the author of the Essay on Crimes and Punishments.

3. Cesare Beccaria 1 authority 1 citation

   An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

   ch. 49 · chapter ii.: of punishments. · chapter v.: of profanation.

   1 citation

   Having read, with infinite satisfaction, the little book on Crimes and Punishments, which in morality, as in medicine, may be compared to one of those few remedies, capable of alleviating our sufferings;

4. Gospel of Matthew Matthew (the Evangelist) 1 neutral 1 citation

   An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

   ch. 68

   1 citation

   Matthew, which says, There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.

5. Voltaire 1 neutral 1 citation

   An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

   preface of the translator.

   1 citation

   With regard to the Commentary, attributed to Mons.

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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

1 Kings (the account of Naboth's vineyard) · 2 Samuel (the account of Mephibosheth and Ziba) · Church teaching on the purgatorial purification of sin · Civil-law doctrine authorizing torture in crimes of difficult proof · Civil-law doctrine on suggestive interrogations · Code de Testibus (the law concerning witnesses) · Conventional moral teaching on gallantry and conjugal infidelity · De Bello Belgico (history of the Netherlands) · De Republica ¶ · Montesquieu's comparison of public accusation in republics and monarchies · Montesquieu's writings on religion and civil law · Mosaic Law (commandment against taking the Lord's name in vain) · Ordinance of Lewis XIV against blasphemy · Panegyric on Trajan · Summa Theologica (writings on self-sacrifice) · The Spirit of Laws · The evidentiary maxim permitting slighter conjectures to suffice in the most atrocious crimes · a law of Mark Antony (Roman law on suicide) · a treatise on suicide · account of Anthony's history · an abridgement of the chronological history and laws of Germany · an account referencing Guy Vances (cited by page number) · an epigraph on mortality attributed to Seneca · historical writings of Cicero · historical writings of Livy · legal maxim on judicial discretion (Pro qualitate personae...) · the Decalogue · the Gospel (on hearing the church) · the Pandect ¶ · the Roman legal maxim on offences against the gods · the Troad (tragic chorus denying an afterlife) · the canon law ¶ · the canons of the Lateran council · the criminal procedure of the Romans · the ordinance of Louis XIV (1670) · unspecified remedy for duelling

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1. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 49 · chapter ii.: of punishments. · chapter v.: of profanation. · chapter xii.: on torture.

   The commentary explicitly relies on Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments as its founding authority, citing it repeatedly by title and praising its author.

   Having read, with infinite satisfaction, the little book on Crimes and Punishments, which in morality, as in medicine, may be compared to one of those few remedies, capable of alleviating our sufferings;