Accademia dei Pugni

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The Accademia dei Pugni was an 18th-century Milanese intellectual society and reformist circle known for promoting Enlightenment ideas and legal, political, and economic reforms in Habsburg Lombardy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment circle
intellectual society
learned society
activeInCentury 18th century
associatedWith Il Caffè
country Habsburg Monarchy
fieldOfWork economics
jurisprudence
political philosophy
social reform
focus administrative modernization
critique of feudal privileges
critique of torture in criminal law
promotion of free trade
foundedInPeriod Age of Enlightenment
hasAlternativeName Società dei Pugni
hasCharacteristic anticlerical
cosmopolitan
reformist
secular
hasLanguage Italian
hasPurpose economic reform
legal reform
political reform
promotion of Enlightenment ideas
ideology Enlightenment
reformism
influenced economic policy debates in Lombardy
legal thought in Lombardy
penal reform in Italy
inspiredBy British empiricism
French Enlightenment
locatedIn Italy
Lombardy
Milan
movement Italian Enlightenment
notableMember Alessandro Verri
Cesare Beccaria
Giovanni Ristori
Giuseppe Visconti
Pietro Secchi
Pietro Verri
operatedInRegion Habsburg Lombardy
publishedIn Il Caffè
regionOfActivity Northern Italy
usedMedium periodical press
salon debates

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Accademia dei Pugni ("Società dei Pugni")
hasAlternativeName
Milanese Enlightenment
hasPart
Cesare Beccaria
memberOf

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