The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well.
It was France's first penal code, and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Cesare Beccaria and Montesquieu.
A Kantian, he defended the French revolution in his Untersuchungen aus dem Natur-, Staats- und Völkerrechte (1796) and translated Beccaria into German.
Romilly's work in reforming criminal law began with his Thoughts on Executive Justice (1786), which developed the views of Beccaria.
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Eighteenth-century Italian mercantilists, such as Antonio Genovesi, Giammaria Ortes, Pietro Verri, Cesare Beccaria, and Giovanni Rinaldo, held that value was explained in terms of the general utility and of scarcity, though they did not typically work-out a theory of how these interacted.