1766 Beccaria, Traité des Délits et Peines.
Traduit de l'italien d'après la troisième édition revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'auteur. Avec des additions de l'auteur qui n'ont pas encore paru en italien. Nouvelle édition plus correcte que les précédentes. Joint: Giacinto Dragonetti (anonyme), Traité des Vertus et des Récompenses 1769.
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- Condition : very good condition, slightly rubbed, the lower end of spine with a minor hole, minor spotting.
- Volumes : 2 volumes in 1.
- Binding : contemporary full calf, spine gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers.
- Format : In-12.
- Pages : XXXVI, 239 pp. and XIII, 9 - 147 pp., 5 ff.
- Publisher : Philadelphia (Paris) and The Hague, Frederic Staatman.
- Date: 1766 and 1769.
- Ref. : Brunet I, 729; Printed in the Mind of Man, 209; Weller II, 175.
French translation of the most influential book in the whole history of criminology. It was in this French version, translated and edited by Morellet, that the book became famous. Beccaria argued that the seriousness of crime should be measured by the harm it causes to society and that punishment should be related to this harm. He considered the prevention of crime to be more important than its punishment, and the certainty of punishment to be more effective than its severity. He opposed capital punishment, which should be replaced by life imprisonment, crimes against property should be punished in the first place by fines, political crimes by banishment, and the condition in prisons should be radically improved (PMM). Voltaire regarded this treatise as the code of humanity and all legislators will be inspired by it.
There are at least seven different editions of the first French translation, all published in 1766.
Giacinto Dragonetti (anonymous), Traité des Vertus et des Récompenses pour servir de suite au Traité des Délits & des Peines. Translated from the Italian by Jean Claude Pingeron. The Hague, Frederic Staatman 1769 (slightly browned, first two leaves with minor paper loss).
Giacinto Dragonetti (1738 - 1818) was a disciple of the Neapolitan Antonio Genovesi and the founder of the Economia Civile tradition. Dragonetti's short book, A Treatise on Virtues and Rewards, appeared in Naples in 1766, shortly after Beccaria's Crimes and Punishments (1764). In the Treatise, Dragonetti advances a theory of action based on prizes for virtues. The idea of prices is based on the assumption that good or virtuous citizens act for intrinsic reasons. Modern economics has gone the way of incentives (and "punishments"), not prizes.
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1766 |
| Year | 1766 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Beccaria Cesare |
| Editor | Staatman Frederic |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Full leather |
| Size | 16,5 x 10 cm |
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