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Only few people continue to believe in the insular legend, which he himself spread, that Marquis Natale was alleged a foreunner of Cesare Beccaria. Disproved on a historical and textual level, that thesis is anyway secondary as compared to the huge gap between these two authors, both in terms of contents and of values.

In his famous Cautio Criminalis, published for the first time in 1631, Jesuit Father Fiedrich Spee seems to have anticipated, a century and a half before the French Revolution , the idea of Presumption of Innocence. The Author deals with it below two profiles: with reference to the victim of trials based on illicit evidences and to the so called elision of the clues to be assessed for the application of torture. Father Spee will be reported as one of the most significant figures for the abolition of the torture.

The manifold genius of Carlo Cattaneo had the chance also to put his mind to the complex and antiquated regulation of the punishment in prison. In various circumstances, and moving from complementary perspectives, he aimed to highlight the need to put in place a virtuous circle of intersections between practical experimentation and theoretical elaboration, in order to give birth, through a multidisciplinary approach, to concrete and positive reform outcomes.

Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Futurism, was born on December 22, 1876, in Alexandria (Egypt) and in that town he accomplished also his course of classical studies, first in a jesuit college and last year attending a detachment of the Academie de Paris. In 1894 he moved to Italy, and entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Pavia, where he attended till the third course with scant success. On november 1897 he was transferred to the University of Genova.

Delio Tessa (1886-1939), the writer and dialect poet of Milan has accomplished his studies at the University of Pavia, attending the Faculty of Law. His career as a student was not particularly brilliant and, as it results from his prose writings, published after his death, his recollections of that town remained only sentimental and a source of poetic inspiration.

"Dei delitti e delle pene" by Cesare Beccaria was published anonymous, for the first time, in July 1764, and was condemned by the Congregation put at the head of the compilation of the Index librorum prohibitorum, by a decree dated February, 3, 1766. Waiting for the opportunity of reading the text of the sentence, many are still the points deserving explanation to begin with the connection with Voltaire.(**)

After over seventy years, Ettore Majorana's disappearance (March 1938) is still wrapt in mystery in spite of a series of attempts to explain it. In the following pages you can find a criticism to the explanation linked to a clamorous trial concluded six years before Majorana's disappearance.

The author returns, after a few years, to the theme of the nomination of life senators on the part of the president of the republic, in order to give an account of the recent applications of the relative norms &, in particular, of the paths leading to reform of those norms within the wider context of constitutional reform. The author also takes note of the recent "extra-institutional" phenomenon consisting in the fact of numerous "candidatures" being put forward informally &, conversely, the three nominations made by the current president Ciampi (2001/2004). The author concludes with some critical considerations concerning the utility of the institution of presidential nomination of life senators. Adapted from the source document.