Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Alfieri, Vittorio. The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri. Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring, George Bell and Sons, 1876.
Manava Dharma Shastra. The punishment for male adultery was not capital as in the Ancient Jewish and early Christian and Muslim law (Sharia) even today. However, if the adulterer had relations with the wife of a higher cast man, then the punishment was death. Even intercourse with an unmarried woman of a higher caste was punishable by death, but not so for relations with a woman of the same or lower caste. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Nathaniel Gordon was the first American slave trader to be executed after the slave trade was made illegal. The Erie was his slave ship where, as was typical, many of the captured Blacks, died as a result of the inhuman conditions. Although Gordon was the first person executed in America, the act making the slave trade an act of piracy dated from 1820. See {68753} .
Count Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography.
