On November 30, 1786, Grand Duke Peter Leopold, the brother of Emperor Joseph II, promulgated a criminal code for the territory of Tuscany that he ruled (a Habsburg secondogeniture since 1737) that was received as a sensation across Europe (Criminal law). The Riforma della legislazione criminale toscana, composed in the spirit of the Enlightenment, was his only work. The code was generally called the Leopoldina (or Codice leopoldino) after the grand duke, who deliber…