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Cenci, Beatrice

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Cenci, Beatrice (1577-1599)

Italian noblewoman controversially executed for murdering her father. Treated with extraordinary cruelty by her father, Francesco Cenci, she finally murdered him with the help of servants and other members of her family. They were all brought to trial, tortured, and sentenced to death, despite pleas for leniency on their behalf. The subsequent confiscation of the Cenci property by Pope Clement VIII was thought to have been the pope's real object in the prosecution.

Her controversial execution aroused great public interest and became the subject of numerous poems, dramas, and novels, notably Shelley's play The Cenci (1819) and Alberto Moravia's novel Beatrice Cenci (1958).



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