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by Victor Hugo<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n with excerpts from Cesare Beccaria\u2019s <\/b><\/span>On Crimes and Punishments<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In a scenario from one of Dante\u2019s circles of Hell we see a man undergoing the slow and cruel experience of waiting for his life to be brutally ended so that \u201cjustice may be done.\u201d The hammer blows of the carpenters who are setting up the guillotine worm their way into the mind of the condemned man, undermining his lucid perception of what is about to happen and plunging him pitilessly into the anguished state of waiting to play his macabre part before a loathsome crowd that is baying for his death.<\/span><\/p>\n As a counterpart, the clear thoughts of Cesare Beccaria who, as if wishing to indicate one of the possible lines to take, inserts into the course of the account the elements needed to take a stand, to decide what side you are on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEvery punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical\u201d<\/i><\/span> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Victor Hugo with excerpts from Cesare Beccaria\u2019s On Crimes and Punishments \u00a0 In a scenario from one of Dante\u2019s circles of Hell we see a man undergoing the slow and cruel experience of waiting for his life to be brutally ended so that \u201cjustice may be done.\u201d The hammer blows of the carpenters who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenale-teatro","tag-129"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FotoHugo12-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>(Montesquieu)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n