ELLERO BOOK, 'La Riforma Civile (The Civil Reform), by Pietro Ellero, 1879, Bologna. 514 pgs.
Pietro Ellero (1833-1933) "A native of Friuli, Ellero became a Lawyer, Civil Servant, and Parliamentarian. As a socialist, he criticized Liberals, moderates, clericals, and, later, socialists. He favored universal suffrage."
"Peter Ellero (Pordenone, 8 October 1833 - Roma, 1 February 1933) was an Italian lawyer. He was a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy in the XVI legislature.
He graduated in law at the 'University of Padua in 1858. Since 1855 he worked as a trainee at the court in Venice, and from 1856 to that of Udine. In 1858, he published his first work, a treatise titled, 'The Death Penalty'.
He taught in Pavia, from 1861 in Bologna as a professor of criminal law. In 1860 he founded the magazine 'Il Giornale', calling for the abolition of the death penalty, and in 1868, 'The Law Archive'.
From 1880 he was in Rome and began to act as a Magistrate in the Court of Cassation. Other works on his ideas were abolition: Brochures on criminals, criminals treaties, civil reform.
He won several awards and honors by the Italian State. He was deputy in 1866 and later senator of the Kingdom of Italy in 1889. The aim of his life, the abolition of the death penalty, was reached in 1889, worked for several years as a Judge at the Court of Cassation in Rome and later at the Council of State. He died in Rome on February 1 1933, at the age of hundred years, receiving a state funeral."