Synopsis Elementorum Juris Criminalis. First Edition, 1804.
A Work Influenced by Beccaria Renazzi, Filippo Maria [1742-1808]. Synopsis Elementorum Juris Criminalis in Usum Auditorum. Jam Pridem Adornata. Siena: Aloysii et Benedicti Bindi, 1804. xvi, 247 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece and gilt-edged raised bands to spine, pastedowns and free endpapers renewed. Large copperplate vignette of Lady Justice to title page. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, early annotations and struck-through signatures to front endleaf, library stamps to title page and two other pages, neat early repair to lower inside corner of leaf *5 (pp. ix-x). $1,500. * First edition. Renazzi was probably the leading thinker on criminal jurisprudence in late eighteenth-century Italy. Intended for students, the Synopsis is a digest of his multi-volume Elementa Juris Criminalis, a work deeply influenced by Beccaria. First published in 1773, it went through several editions in Latin and Italian and was, according to Gross, "perhaps the first [work] in that age to reduce the material of crimes and punishment to a scientific system." A well-received work, the Synopsis went through seven more editions, the lat one in 1859. Despite its publication history, all editions are rare or scarce. OCLC locates two copies of the first edition, both in Europe. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. Gross, Rome in the Age of Enlightenment 219.
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