Note 12 — Chapter I · BECCARIA’S LIFE AND CHARACTER.

Pietro had sent some of his manuscripts to Morellet, perhaps in the hope that the latter would offer to translate them. Anyhow Beccaria brought back no compliments to Pietro from Paris, and the key to Pietro’s feelings lies in the words he wrote to his brother the day after Beccaria’s return: ‘Non mi ha detto una sillaba che mostri che alcuno sappia in Parigi, che io sono al mondo.’