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Iluminismo e absolutismo no modelo jurídico-penal de Cesare Beccaria

2010; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 29; Issue: 57 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/2177-7055.2008v29n57p261

2177-7055

Arno Dal Ri, Alexander de Castro,

Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Cesare Beccaria, known as the author who, elaborating a system of criminal law based on illuminists principles, has created the bases of the modern liberal criminal law, had, however, very deep bonds with the Austrian absolutism. Thus, in the present paper, we will analyze some points of the politic structure where Beccaria produced his work Dei Delitti e delle Pene, seeking to exa- mine the understanding about the way Illuminism, in the context of the Habsburg absolutism’s formation, would operate in the elaboration of the Italian jurist’s legal criminal model.