At the end of the Old Regime, criminal penalties, such as death, Dantesque prisons and torture as a crazy path to the truth, in addition to being cruel in themselves, were carried out with extreme cruelty, causing much greater evils than those that could be essential for comply with the sense of punishment, luxury evils that Pacheco would say about cruelty. It can be seen well in the engravings of Francisco de Goya or in the Jacques Callot and also in the painting of the Vicaría square in Naples shown in the book: condemned to be hung by their arms tied behind their backs, dancing out of joint in the air of the pole, prisoners with no food other than what their relatives throw into the baskets that hang like reeds from the bars of the cells and death as a major spectacle, with a procession of trumpets and kettledrums that announce it throughout the city. so that no one is free from witnessing the horror and suffering the terror with which they try, in vain, for everyone to conform to compliance with the law. The proximity of cruelty fuels sensitivity against cruelty. This Geography aims to serve this purpose, which in this first volume covers Spain, Italy, Argentina and Mexico.
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