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Beccaria, Cesare, Marchese di Beccaria

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Beccaria, Cesare, Marchese di Beccaria (1738-1794)

Italian philanthropist, born in Milan. He opposed capital punishment and torture, advocated education as a crime preventive, influenced English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and coined the phrase ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, the tenet of utilitarianism.
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