Beccaria

Chammah notes that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams read Cesare Beccaria’s 1764 essay “On Crimes and Punishments,” whose arguments against capital punishment inspired the Philadelphia doctor Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to suggest that capital punishment “lessens the horror of taking away human life and thereby tends to multiply murders.”

Beccaria Rolfi, who was born April 8, 1925 into a rural farm family in the northern Piedmont region, joined the anti-Nazi-Fascist resistance in December 1943, and was arrested four months later.

Gabriella wore a lace embroidered dress by designer Luisa Beccaria.

The bride’s gown was designed by Luisa Beccaria, while the monarch wore a pink A-line coat, and a lilac and pink silk dress by Stewart Parvin.

Luisa Beccaria, whose graceful, dreamy dresses have been worn by Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman, was pregnant with the first of her five children when she opened her original boutique in Milan 30 years ago.