BECCARIA, CESARE

in full Cesare, Marchese (marquess) Di Beccaria Bonesana born March 15, 1738, Milan died Nov. 28, 1794, Milan Italian criminologist and economist whose Dei delitti e delle pene (Eng. trans. J.A. Farrer, Crimes and Punishment, 1880) was a celebrated volume on the reform of criminal justice. Additional reading Assessments of his criminal law studies include Coleman Phillipson, Three Criminal Law Reformers: Beccaria, Bentham, Romilly (1923, reprinted 1975); Marcello T. Maestro, Voltaire and Beccaria as Reformers of Criminal Law (1942, reissued 1972), and Cesare Beccaria and the Origins of Penal Reform (1973). On his economic writings, see Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (1954, reissued 1986).