Società dei Pugni
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The Società dei Pugni (Society of Fists) was an intellectual group active in Milan during the mid-18th century. Despite Austrian censorship, members of this group embraced the progressive ideas of the French Revolution. Notable figures associated with this society included Cesare Beccaria, a prominent criminologist and economist, and Pietro Verri, a writer and administrator. This intellectual movement coincided with a period of enlightened, albeit despotic, growth in Milan, fostering a flourishing of local culture and the development of neoclassical architecture.1
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