'Giustizia fatta': observations sur un registre des condamnés à mort (1471–1764) de la bibliothèque de Beccaria by Pierre Musitelli

“…Through their violence, these gloomy pages and those of similar registers held at Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana, no doubt stimulated Beccaria’s humanism, Verri’s indignation, and Manzoni’s moral exactingness, all three of whom exploded the myth that the death penalty is human justice in action. …”
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