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Ads by Google      Beatrice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice Cenci, Italian woman in the 16th century who died by decapitation Beatrice, the guide through Paradise in Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia Beatrice (pronounced in Italian bay'-a-tree-chay, in English bee'-a-tris) is a name derived from the Latin name Beatrix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice   (179 words)      BEATRICE CENCI - LoveToKnow Article on BEATRICE CENCI Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci (1549-1598), the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper. Information having been communicated to Rome, the whole of the Cenci family were arrested early in 1599; but the story of the hardships they underwent in prison is greatly exaggerated. The first attempt to deal with the subject on documentary evidence is A. Bertolottis Francesco Cenci e Ia sue famiglia (2nd ed., Florence, I879), containing a number of interesting documents which place the events in their true light; cf. http://50.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CE/CENCI_BEATRICE.htm   (534 words)      Portraits of Beatrice Another English poet who responded to the appeal of Beatrice and her fate was Robert Browning; the Cenci case has both historical and literary bonds with Browning's The Ring and the Book. It is in part the dread and fascination inspired by family murder that have won a curious immortality for the trial of Beatrice Cenci and her brothers in Rome in 1599 for the murder of their father, Francesco. Albert Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci reflects, as did its predecessor, Bomarzo, the composer's predilection for the violent history of the Italian Renaissance. http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/beatrice.html   (3499 words)      Review: Beatrice's Spell I was not familiar with the story of Beatrice Cenci prior to reading this book, and I found myself amazed and deeply affected by her trials and tortures. This book did pique my interest in the story of Beatrice Cenci, and perhaps that was all it set out to do. Beatrice's Spell is a non-fiction book by Belinda Jack that wants to illuminate readers about the story of Beatrice Cenci, a 16 year-old girl who is executed under Papal decree in the year 1599 for the murder of her father. http://www.copperfieldreview.com/reviews/beatrices_spell.htm   (481 words)      CENCI - LoveToKnow Article on CENCI Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci (1549-1598), the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper. Information having been communicated to Rome, the whole of the Cenci family were arrested early in 1599; but the story of the hardships they underwent in prison is greatly exaggerated. The first attempt to deal with the subject on documentary evidence is A. Bertolottis Francesco Cenci e Ia sue famiglia (2nd ed., Florence, I879), containing a number of interesting documents which place the events in their true light; cf. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CE/CENCI.htm   (481 words)      Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Cenci 2001. People's Theatre Studio Upstairs. The Cenci 1935. People's Theatre, Rye Hill. Newcastle upon Tyne. Shelley's "The Cenci" is neither particularly good drama nor consistently well written and but for the notoriety of the theme it would hardly have survived its century under the censor's ban. Percy Shelly (1792-1822) first heard the story of the Cenci family when he and his wife Mary were in Livorno in 1818. CENCI (Cecil McGivern), Lucretia (Winifred Eddy) and Savella (R. Perring) in a scene from Shelley's "Cenci," which is being produced this week at the People's Theatre, Newcastle. http://www.sandmartyn.freeserve.co.uk/cenci/cenci_his.html   (481 words)      The Cenci: A Tragedy. LUCRETIA She bids thee curse; And if thy curses, as they cannot do, Could kill her soul-- CENCI She would not come. That poor wretch Who stands so pale, and trembling, and amazed, If it be true he murdered Cenci, was A sword in the right hand of justest God. LUCRETIA, Wife of CENCI and Stepmother of his children. http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel11714.html   (481 words)      R. Kobetts: Beatrice Cenci as a Speaking Subject Beatrice is essentially innocent but she will be slandered for centuries; Cenci is essentially evil, he however is 'shielded by a father's holy name'" (113). As she is being arrested, Beatrice speaks the first of her anti-confessions, in which she not only refuses to name her role in the murder but also impugns the authority of the law and its language (284; 4.4.111-29). Beatrice's status, therefore, as one who speaks but does not name, grants her neither the legal and symbolic status of plaintiff nor the lack of control implicit in the role of victim. prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5C/M.Conner.htmlhttp://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/3B/R.Kobetts.html   (3419 words)      Beatrice Cenci: The investigators suspected foul play almost as soon as they saw the body that September morning in 1598 A small and balanced book on the story of the Cenci (in Italian) is available at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, where the Reni "portrait of Beatrice" now usually hangs -- it was out for cleaning at the beginning of May 2000. At least six movies were made of the Beatrice Cenci story, starting with a silent, black and white film in 1909 and ending with the bloodbath 1969 version that Lucio "The Godfather of Gore" Fulci made on location at the castle. Particularly troublesome were the three puncture wounds on the right side of Count Cenci's head -- the one near his eye was deepest. http://www.mmdtkw.org/VBeatriceCenci.html   (814 words)      Érudit RON n38-39 2005 : Long Hoeveler : Beatrice Cenci in Hawthorne, Melville and her Atlantic-Rim Contexts The figure of Beatrice Cenci was, according to Melville, the embodiment of those “two most horrible crimes possible to civilized humanity--incest and parricide." Nevertheless, she enjoyed a curious popularity as a subject in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic-rim literary culture. Haselmayer, Louis A. "Hawthorne and the Cenci." Neophilologus 27 (1941), 61-62. "Beatrice Cenci: Symbol and Vision in The Marble Faun." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 25 (1970), 85-93. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2005/v/n38-39/011670ar.html   (6288 words)      M. LaMonaca: Violent Women from Shelley to Hawthorne In a speech foreshadowing Beatrice's declaration, Cenci declares that his soul is a "scourge" to be resigned "Into the hands of him who wielded it" (IV.i.63-64). If God does not, in fact, act through the evil Count Cenci, or through the corrupt Pope and his emissaries, and leaves Beatrice to her death, then he seems absent from the world of the play. The textual element which perhaps best supports this reading is the means of Count Cenci's murder. http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/3B/M.LaMonaca.html   (3915 words)      The Cenci, Alexandre Dumas The result was, that Francesco Cenci, inheriting vicious instincts and master of an immense fortune which enabled him to purchase immunity, abandoned himself to all the evil passions of his fiery and passionate temperament. Marzio, who was in the service of Giacomo, had often seen Beatrice, and loved her, but with that silent and hopeless love which devours the soul. Brought up as she had been, uneducated, deprived of all society, even that of her stepmother, Beatrice knew not good from evil: her ruin was comparatively easy to compass; yet Francesco, to accomplish his diabolical purpose, employed all the means at his command. http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/mixed_lit/dumas_cenci.htm   (9053 words)      Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci The story of Beatrice Cenci had been brought to public attention by the historian Jean-Charles Sismondi with the publication of his Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen age (History of the Italian Republics of the Middle Ages), and was sensationalized in various subsequent texts for its violent and gratuitous content. After the murder was carried out, Beatrice Cenci, her step-mother and younger brother quietly disposed of the body of the man who had brutalized the son physically and had abused both the women physically and sexually. Hosmer’s portrayal of Beatrice Cenci, however, reveals a young woman in a state of tranquil contemplation in spite of the hideous past she was forced to endure. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/womenartists/19th_Century/Hosmer/beatrice_desc.html   (508 words)      Beatrice Cenci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice Cenci ( 1577 - 1599) was an Italian noblewoman, the daughter of the violent patriarch Francesco Cenci. The girl had tried to inform the authorities about the frequent mistreatments, but nothing had happened, although everybody in Rome knew what kind of person Francesco Cenci was. Palazzo Cenci In 1598, during one of Francesco's stays at the castle, two vassals (one of which had become Beatrice's secret lover) helped them to drug the man, stab him with a long nail through his eye and his throat, and hide the corpse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Cenci   (508 words)      Telegraph Arts The beauty and the beast The story is about the lovely young girl Beatrice, daughter of the stupendously rich and vicious Roman grandee Francesco Cenci. If Beatrice Cenci – if it is she – were in the Louvre and not in the Palazzo Barberini, Mona Lisa would be wiping her eyes. As she says, the best way of tracing the myriad Cenci resurrections is "by using the resources of the worldwide web", which she has done to good effect. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/08/bocen208.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/08/bomain.html   (729 words)      Web QnA Beatrice is eternally connected to the evil of the Cenci and her "contamination" evokes a multiplicity of meanings. Beatrice had the makings of a strong heroine at the very beginning of The Cenci because in I.ii she appears as a very perceptive and intelligent woman who correctly read the Prelate Orsino as a sly equivocator who would betray her in the end (29-30). Once contaminated, a staggering Beatrice, overwhelmed by the cloud of inescapable evil that darkens the Cenci Palace, battles a trio of demons -- the Cenci, the world, and most importantly, the demon within. http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/WebQnA/webqna.pl?module=astauff2-4&action=viewall   (5147 words)      Romanticism On the Net 4 (November 1996) Cenci's ironic comment about the church's dependence upon his depredations offers another reading of events in the play that suggests that the sacred is simply a cover for self-interest. One set of thematics that tends to undermine a sacrificial reading of The Cenci is the fact that the characters carry out their actions for Mammon, as much as God. She takes submission, whether to Cenci's bloodlust so "that my father/ Were celebrating now one feast for all" or Cenci's submission to God, as the only cure for the ills that plague the family. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1996/v/n4/005727ar.html   (5147 words)      The Cenci Cenci himself built a chapel in the court of his Palace, and dedicated it to St. Thomas the Apostle, and established masses for the peace of his soul. I pity the Count Cenci from my heart; His outraged love perhaps awakened hate, And thus he is exasperated to ill. In the great war between the old and young, I, who have white hairs and a tottering body, Will keep at least blameless neutrality.' Enter ORSINO You, my good lord Orsino, heard those words. The Cenci Palace is of great extent; and, though in part modernized, there yet remains a vast and gloomy pile of feudal architecture in the same state as during the dreadful scenes which are the subject of this tragedy. http://www.blackmask.com/books44c/thecenci.htm   (5147 words)      LRB Charles Nicholl : Screaming in the Castle Francesco Cenci was an arrogant, greedy, lecherous and violent man. There are many reasons why he might have had his head stoved in on a dark night in the badlands of the Abruzzi. This was broadly the case with the current tenants of the building: Count Francesco Cenci, a 52-year-old Roman around whom accusations of corruption and violence clustered like summer flies; his second wife, Lucrezia; and his youngest daughter, Beatrice. Perhaps it contains a vein of comment on the Cenci case; it is rather more likely to do so than the dubious Reni portrait, which caused so many flutters beneath the frock-coats of the literati. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n13/nich02_.html   (5147 words)      OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Beatrix Cenci Shelley’s verse play “The Cenci” is perhaps the most famous recounting of the Cenci story, but the librettists claim the writer’s setting of the tale was not one of their basic sources. Beatrice Cenci (Beatrix Cenci in Spanish) was just shy of 23 years old when she was publicly executed in Rome on September 11, 1599 for assenting to her father’s murder. The librettists, William Shand and Alberto Girri, cast the Cenci story in two acts, each with a series of seven short, sensationalistic scenes. http://www.operaworld.com/special/beatrix.shtml   (5147 words)      2742.txt The result was, that Francesco Cenci, inheriting vicious instincts and master of an immense fortune which enabled him to purchase immunity, abandoned himself to all the evil passions of his fiery and passionate temperament. But, before leaving, Francesco Cenci had taken precautions; every person about the pope was in his pay, or hoped to be. The period when Francesco Cenci was accustomed to go to Rocco Petrella was approaching: it was arranged that Olympio, conversant with the district and its inhabitants, should collect a party of a dozen Neapolitan bandits, and conceal them in a forest through which the travellers would have to pass. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/2742/2742.txt   (5147 words)      Romanticism On the Net 4 (November 1996) Cenci's ironic comment about the church's dependence upon his depredations offers another reading of events in the play that suggests that the sacred is simply a cover for self-interest. Cenci utters these words as he awaits the final submission of Beatrice to his will, yet Beatrice does not immediately comply with this request. Cenci himself seems a monstrous double of Prometheus: rather than a rebellious god punished for his actions, Cenci is a human criminal whose actions are sanctioned by the church. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1996/v/n4/005727ar.html   (6765 words)      The Cenci, Stendhal It was decided to conceal the men in the forests adjoining la Petrella, to warn them of the hour at which Francesco Cenci was to start on his journey; they would intercept him on the road, and send word to his family that they would release him on payment of a large ransom. The man who might have conversed thus with himself was called Francesco Cenci: he was killed before the eyes of his wife and daughter on the 15th of September, 1598. It should be explained that the famous Monsignor Guerra was a frequent visitor to the palazzo Cenci; he was a man of tall stature and extremely handsome to boot, and had received this special gift from fortune that, to [p. http://www.geocities.com/mixed_lit/stendhal_cenci.htm   (6765 words)      The Cenci    da Percy B This is a condensed version of Shelley& play The Cenci, written in Rome in 1819, set in 1599 and based on the true story of the Roman Cenci family. The play opens with a dialogue between Cenci and Cardinal Camillo. All the characters hold Count Cenci in great fear with the exception of his daughter Beatrice, until the scene of their implied incest. http://www.lingue.unibo.it/romanticismo/ENGLISH/THE_CENCI.HTM   (472 words)      M. LaMonaca: Violent Women from Shelley to Hawthorne In a speech foreshadowing Beatrice's declaration, Cenci declares that his soul is a "scourge" to be resigned "Into the hands of him who wielded it" (IV.i.63-64). If God does not, in fact, act through the evil Count Cenci, or through the corrupt Pope and his emissaries, and leaves Beatrice to her death, then he seems absent from the world of the play. In Shelley's preface to The Cenci, the author himself views Beatrice's act as indicative of a fallen nature: "Revenge, retaliation and atonement," he states, "are pernicious mistakes. http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/3B/M.LaMonaca.html   (472 words)      The Cenci Cenci himself built a chapel in the court of his Palace, and dedicated it to St. Thomas the Apostle, and established masses for the peace of his soul. I pity the Count Cenci from my heart; His outraged love perhaps awakened hate, And thus he is exasperated to ill. In the great war between the old and young, I, who have white hairs and a tottering body, Will keep at least blameless neutrality.' Enter ORSINO You, my good lord Orsino, heard those words. Beatrice Cenci appears to have been one of those rare persons in whom energy and gentleness dwell together without destroying one another; her nature was simple and profound. http://www.blackmask.com/books44c/thecenci.htm   (14157 words)      The Cenci And this returns us, finally, the distinction that Shelley makes in his Dedication to Leigh Hunt, between his earlier poetry, which are “dreams of what ought to be, or may be,” and The Cenci, which is a “sad reality.” How, we might ask, is Shelley positioning Beatrice? Cenci gives a feast to celebrate the death of his two sons. The Pope refuses to help, assigning Cenci’s treatment of his family to justifiable rage at their insubordination. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cjager/cenci.html   (14157 words)      Giacomo’s Role in Cenci Giacomo, used to “beds of down, and delicate food, hundreds of servants, and six palaces” (2.2), pleads with the Cardinal to intervene with his father, Cenci, on his behalf. Cenci, who stole his wife’s dowry, and refused to help Giacomo financially, has provoked him into desperate action. The cardinal, however, tells him “though your particular case is hard, I know the pope will not divert the course of the law” (2.2). http://www.radessays.com/viewpaper/23523/Whitewater_vs_Watergate.html   (14157 words)      Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: A Roman Virgin Submissions are invited for a session titled "Beatrice Cenci as historical and literary icon in Italian and Foreign Literature, 1599--present /Beatrice Cenci, icona letteraria e storica nella letteratura italiana e straniera, 1599--al presente " at the AATI/AAIS Convention in Genoa, Italy May 25-28, 2006. All approaches to this topic are welcome, in particular discussions of international/trans-cultural tendencies to adopt Beatrice Cenci, the historical person, as a fictional character through 1600 to the present. "'A Roman Virgin': Beatrice Cenci as historical and literary icon in Italian and Foreign Literature, 1599-present http://www.unm.edu/~loboblog/mort/archives/005346.html   (165 words)      THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: Décolleté ~ A Decapitation Miscellany In Rome, a sixteen-year-old Beatrice Cenci--with the help of her stepmother, Lucrezia, and her brother Giacomo--arranged the murder of her father, the cruel and sadistic Count Cenci, who had persecuted Beatrice and probably raped her. Where possible the images have been annotated within the context of their origin, be it historical or literary. Thereupon, while Beatrice's head rolled on one side of the machine, the body rose up on the other, falling forward again with great violence upon the mannaia. http://www.sepulchritude.com/chapelperilous/decollete/decollete-misc.html   (1298 words)

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