This collection of Cesare Beccaria's writings, conducted with critical rigor and, as far as possible, complete, was promoted by Mediobanca to honor the memory of Adolfo Tino (1900-1977), its president for twenty years, who abandoned the profession of journalist so as not to serve despotism, was a great lawyer, one of the founders of the Action Party, animator of the Resistance, inflexible supporter of the ideals of justice and freedom.

The Edizione Nazionale Beccariana is not only a complete collection of texts, but it is also a critical edition, with philological notes, appendices for manuscripts and outdated drafts, commentary notes, critical essays aimed at giving an account of previous editions and the criteria followed, and traces a history of each of Beccaria's writings, from the first draft to the last printing supervised by the author. The corpus will ultimately be composed of 16 volumes, to which will be added a final one of addenda, documents, indexes. This collection, now published in its entirety,documents the intense activity of management of public affairs that took place within the magistrates of the State of Milan at the end of the 18th century, as well as Beccaria's fundamental contribution to that new cultural and political climate in which public administration and economic reflection were becoming increasingly important.

VOLUME I. Dei delitti e delle pene Scritti filosofici e letterari.(20.7 MB)

VOLUME II. Scritti filosofici e letterari (14.7 MB)

 VOLUME III. Scritti economici (21.4 MB)

 VOLUME IV. Carteggio (17.8 MB)

 VOLUME V. Carteggio (20 MB)

 VOLUME VI. Atti di governo (Serie I: 1771 - 1777) (13.4 MB)

 VOLUME VII. Atti di governo (Serie II: 1778 - 1783) (16.5 MB)

 VOLUME VIII. Atti di governo (Serie III: 1784 - 1786) (16.5 MB)

 VOLUME IX. Atti di governo (Serie IV: 1787) (14.1 MB)

VOLUME X. Atti di governo (Serie V: 1788) (10.9 MB)

VOLUME XI. Atti di governo (Serie VI: 1789) (15.1 MB)

VOLUME XII. Atti di governo (Serie VII: 1790) (3.5 MB)

VOLUME XIII. Atti di governo (Serie VIII: 1791) (2.3 MB)

VOLUME XIV. Atti di governo (Serie IX: 1792) (2.7 MB)

VOLUME XV. Atti di governo (Serie X: 1793) (4.9 B)

VOLUME XVI. Atti di governo (Serie XI: Gennaio - Dicembre 1794) (1.9 MB)

VOLUME XVI bis. Atti di governo (Serie XI: Gennaio - Dicembre 1794) - (2.2 MB)

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By CESARE BECCARIA. Translated, with an introduction, by HENRY PAOLUCCI

On Crimes and Punishments is a seminal treatise on legal reform written by the Italian philosopher and thinker Cesare Beccaria between 1763 and 1764. The essays proposed many reforms for the criminal justice system, including prompt administration of clearly prescribed and consistent punishments, well-publicized laws made by the legislature rather than individual courts or judges, the abolition of torture in prisons and the use of the penal system to deter would-be offenders, rather than simply punishing those convicted. It is also one of the earlier, and most famous, works against death penalty. The main reason put forward against that measure is that the State, by putting people to death, was committing a crime to punish another one.On Crimes and Punishments is widely considered one of the founding texts of Classical Criminology.