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en-wikipedia-org-1554		Cesare Beccaria - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4122	557	64	Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio[1] (Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa, ˈtʃɛː-]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist,[2] jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist[3] and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. According to John Bessler, Beccaria's works had a profound influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States.[7] Catherine the Great publicly endorsed it, while thousands of miles away in the United States, founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams quoted it. Cesare Beccaria: The Genius of 'On Crimes and Punishments'. Cesare Beccaria: The Genius of 'On Crimes and Punishments'. "Cesare Beccaria's influence on English discussions of punishment, 1764–1789".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1554.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1554.txt