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	Beatrice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beatrice Cenci, Italian woman in the 16th century who died by decapitation
		Beatrice (pronounced in Italian bay'-a-tree-chay, in English bee'-a-tris) is a name derived from the Latin name Beatrix.
		Beatrice, female singer who represented Bosnia and Herzegovina together with Dino Merlin in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beatrice (179 words)

	Portraits of Beatrice
		In Italy the Cenci theme was seized upon by nineteenth-century men of letters who were associated with patriotic activity and anticlericalism.
		Albert Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci reflects, as did its predecessor, Bomarzo, the composer's predilection for the violent history of the Italian Renaissance.
		On the orders of the Cenci family and their ally, Monsignore Mario Guerra (whom tradition later incorrectly identified as a suitor of Beatrice), Olimpio was assassinated to eliminate his testimony.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/beatrice.html (3499 words)

	Edward Cheney : "Letter of Beatrice Cenci, with Remarks on Her Portrait by Guido."
		Beatrice Cenci is not less indebted for the commiseration of posterity to the surpassing type of beauty which bears her name in the gallery of the Barberini palace at Rome.
		The Colonna family was closely allied to that of the Cenci ; and it is not probable that a spurious portrait was suffered to pass in their palace for an original.
		That it is painted by Guido is, I believe, incontestable ; but there is little evidence excepting tradition to prove that it represents the Cenci.
	www.public.asu.edu /~cajsa/sensation/cheney_letter (561 words)

	The agony of Beatrice Cenci - Mucri - Criminology Museum
		At the scaffold that had been erected on Ponte Sant’Angelo, Beatrice Cenci, aged 23, and her stepmother Lucrezia Petroni were beheaded for murdering Francesco Cenci, the father and husband respectively of the accused.
		They first tried to do it with poison but Cenci survived, and so they decided to smash his skull and throw the body from a balcony, to make it look like an accident.
		Beatrice was next, the crowd murmured, sobs were heard, the young woman put her head on the block and the sharp blade of the executioner’s axe also came down on her neck.
	www.museocriminologico.it /cenci_uk.htm (637 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.
	50.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CENCI_BEATRICE.htm (534 words)

	Review: Beatrice's Spell
		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.
		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.
		Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci
	www.copperfieldreview.com /reviews/beatrices_spell.htm (481 words)

	Beatrice Cenci: The investigators suspected foul play almost as soon as they saw the body that September morning in 1598
		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.
		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.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VBeatriceCenci.html (814 words)

	Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci
		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.
		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.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~artarch/womenartists/19th_Century/Hosmer/beatrice_desc.html (508 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.
		Beatrice was then lowered and untied; a barber reduced the dislocation of her arms in the usual manner; the examination was read over to her, and, as she had promised, she made a full confession.
		Beatrice, above all, displayed the greatest assurance, demanding to be the first to be confronted with Marzio; whose mendacity she affirmed with such calm dignity, that he, more than ever smitten by her beauty, determined, since he could not live for her, to save her by his death.
	www.angelfire.com /mn3/mixed_lit/dumas_cenci.htm (9053 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.
	prometheus.cc.emory.edu /panels/3B/M.LaMonaca.html (3915 words)

	Portrait of Beatrice Cenci by SIRANI, Elisabetta
		Identified as a portrait of Beatrice Cenci (1577-99), this painting is famous for the tragic story of its subject, a young Roman noblewoman who was immortalized by Stendhal and Dumas.
		Beatrice, the daughter of the rich and powerful Francesco Cenci, suffered from her father's mistreatment.
		In the presence of an enormous crowd Beatrice was decapitated in the Ponte Sant'Angelo in September of 1599, instantly becoming a symbol of innocence oppressed.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/s/sirani/b_cenci.html (291 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).
		Beatrice scoffs at Orsino's suggestion th at she "[a]ccuse [her father] of the deed, and let the law/ Avenge [her]" because she knows that legal redress is impossible for her (265; 3.1.152-66).
		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)

	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.
		The second representation that Pierre encounters during his psychic descent is a copy of Guido Reni’s supposed portrait of Beatrice Cenci, which the narrator describes as that "sweetest, most touching, but most awful of all feminine heads" (351).
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2005/v/n38-39/011670ar.html (6288 words)

	Beatrice Cenci review
		Francesco Cenci is a wealthy tyrant who's not only hated by the people, but by his own family as well.
		Further investigation uncovers the truth and Beatrice and others of her immediate family are beheaded in the town square, while other family members are imprisoned.
		In fact, for years to come, flowers are laid on Beatrice's grave and the public regards her more as a hero who stood up for herself instead of a murderer.
	www.shockingimages.com /fulci/beatrice.html (523 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).
		Also, in I.iii she begged the guests at the “hideous feast” not to abandon her and her stepmother because they are not to blame for Lord Cenci’s insanity and need some support to bear their losses (100-129).
	curriculum.calstatela.edu /WebQnA/webqna.pl?module=astauff2-4&action=viewall (5147 words)

	Telegraph Arts The beauty and the beast
		If Beatrice Cenci – if it is she – were in the Louvre and not in the Palazzo Barberini, Mona Lisa would be wiping her eyes.
		It was not until the 18th century that it was catalogued as "believed to be" of Beatrice Cenci and attributed to Guido Reni.
		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.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/08/bocen208.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/08/bomain.html (729 words)

	AllRefer.com - Beatrice Cenci (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Her father, Francesco Cenci (1549–98), was a Roman noble noted for his viciousness.
		Beatrice Cenci[bA´´AtrE´chA chAn´chE] Pronunciation Key, 1577–99, Italian noblewoman, tragic figure of the late Renaissance.
		This tragedy, often cited as an example of the dissipation and cruelty of 16th-century Rome, is the subject of, among other works, Francesco D. Guerrazzi's novel Beatrice Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley's tragedy The Cenci, and Alberto Ginastera's opera Beatrix Cenci.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cenci-Be.html (216 words)

	The Cenci Newman 5
		Beatrice Cenci opens with a brief orchestral flourish of 23 bars, but these few bars contain two of the opera’s main motifs, the first of which is a striking passage using very effective horn shakes (Ex 1).
		The BBC Music Magazine for August 1995 reported Goldschmidt as saying, ‘If I had died ten years ago, not a soul would know a note of Cenci or anything’, and much the same could have been said of Brian’s music had he died at the biblical three score years and ten.
		and Beatrice Cenci were written when Brian and Goldschmidt were at the height of their powers and it is extraordinary that both works languished for so long unperformed and almost forgotten.
	www.musicweb-international.com /brian/thecenci_newman5.htm (2161 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.
		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.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CENCI.htm (2161 words)

	Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Cenci 2001. People's Theatre Studio Upstairs. The Cenci 1935. People's Theatre, Rye Hill. Newcastle upon Tyne.
		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.
		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.
		Mary Shelley later wrote: 'Shelley's imagination became strongly excited, and he urged the subject to me as one fitted for a tragedy.' The poet himself remarked in his preface to the play that: "the story of the Cenci was a subject not to be mentioned in Italian society without awakening a deep and breathless interest".
	www.sandmartyn.freeserve.co.uk /cenci/cenci_his.html (2161 words)

	Angela Cenci-NilssonÂ«s publication list
		Cenci M.A., Lee C.S., and Björklund A. (1998) L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the rat is associated with striatal overexpression of prodynorphin- and glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA.
		Cenci M. A., Kalén P., Mandel R.J. and Björklund A. (1992) Regional differences in the regulation of dopamine and noradrenaline release in medial frontal cortex, nucleus accumbens and caudate-putamen: a microdialysis study in the rat.
		Cenci M. A., Tranberg A., Andersson M. and Hilbertson A. (1999) Changes in the regional and compartmental distribution of FosB- and JunB-like immunoreactivity induced in the dopamine-denervated rat striatum by acute or chronic L-DOPA treatment.
	www.wnc.lu.se /nbiol/angelpub.html (2161 words)

	Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1909–14. The Cenci. Vol. 18, Part 4. The Harvard Classics
		I love tranquil solitude / And such society / As is quiet, wise, and good.
	www.bartleby.com /18/4 (2161 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cenci Beatrice
		She was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, a wealthy and cruel Roman...
		Cenci, Beatrice (1577-1599), Italian noblewoman, called the “beautiful parricide”.
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cenci Beatrice
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cenci_Beatrice.html (100 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 4 (November 1996)
		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.
		Cenci does not quite go through with the gesture, since he argues that he has drunk enough of pleasure at the news his sons' deaths, but then he reverses himself at the end of the act.
		He never sent the petition to the Pope, thus allowing Cenci to continue his domestic tyranny, and aids and abets Beatrice in her patricide.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/1996/v/n4/005727ar.html (6765 words)

	Chapter BEAR <i>to</i> Beauty of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		At first she disliked Benedick, and thought him a flippant conceited coxcomb; but overhearing a conversation between her cousin Hero and her gentlewoman, in which Hero bewails that Beatrice should trifle with such deep love as that of Benedick, and should scorn so true and good a gentleman, she said, “Sits the wind thus?
		Beatrice, daughter of Ferdinando king of Naples, sister of Leonora duchess of Ferrara, and wife of Mathias Corvinus of Hungary.
		Beatrice, niece of Leonato governor of Messina, lively and light-hearted, affectionate and impulsive.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1112/15808/1.html (389 words)

	BEATRICE CENCI, with Micheline Presle and Gino Cervi
		A very stagey film, Beatrice Cenci oozes melodrama from it’s every pore, a fact not helped by the hugely overbearing soundtrack that strives to be epic but only manages to be rather distracting.
		A girl, Beatrice Cenci (Mireille Granelli), runs through the darkness in a state of some agitation.
		Against Francesco’s wishes, Beatrice and Calvetti start developing a relationship; sneaking into each others rooms and stealing kisses whilst out on country walks (when she isn’t too busy whining, that is).
	www.erratica.co.uk /euromiscellanea/beatrice_cenci.htm (471 words)

	The Cenci
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.blackmask.com /books44c/thecenci.htm (14157 words)

	Beatrice Cenci
		Count Cenci is a cruel, greedy man, whose money helped protect him from the reprimand of the supreme Church.
		Count Cenci is not a liked man by his community or therefore even liked by his family.
		The closing of the film is of Beatrice’s grave littered with flowers placed by people who saw her more as hero than a murderer.
	www.cinema-nocturna.com /beatrice_cenci.htm (449 words)

	Cultural events
		The very interesting catalogue of the exhibition "Beatrice Cenci.
		Portrait of the Jurisconsult Prospero Farinacci by Giuseppe Cesari (Cavalier d'Arpino) (Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome) and the authentic copy of the proceedings of the Cenci trial (Apografo Maccarani, 1599, Archivio Storico Capitolino, Rome)
		Following the execution, her body was bourne in procession, accompanied by a mourning crowd, to the church of S. Pietro in Montorio where she was buried, covered in roses, beneath the main altar, her head placed beside her body on a plate of silver in tribute to the victim of the oppression of the powerful.
	www.paulahowarth.com /villa/e-15.htm (408 words)

	The Cenci da Percy B
		All the characters hold Count Cenci in great fear with the exception of his daughter Beatrice, until the scene of their implied incest.
		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.
	www.lingue.unibo.it /romanticismo/ENGLISH/THE_CENCI.HTM (472 words)

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