Giuseppie Pelli
1) Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists-Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria
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Peter Garnsey is emeritus professor of the history of classical antiquity at the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Jesus College. His recent books include Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution and, with Richard Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture.
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in English
In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria...