The Cenci

The Cenci was a verse drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis (in particular, Beatrice Cenci).

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The play was considered unperformable in its day due to its theme of incest, and was not performed in London until 1922.

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It was included in the Harvard Classics as one of the most important and representative works of the western canon.

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Other works titled "The Cenci" include a true crime story by Alexandre Dumas and a novella by Stendhal.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is esteemed by some scholars the finest lyric poet in the English language. He is perhaps most widely famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and Th...

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Beatrice Cenci: Beatrice Cenci (1577? August 22,1599) was an Italian noblewoman, the daughter of the violent patriarch Francesco Cenci....

The Cenci related Images and Photos (experimental)

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci Housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica Rome