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Cenci

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Cen·ci  (chnch), Beatrice 1577-1599.
Italian noblewoman who was beheaded for patricide. She was the subject of a number of poems and other works of art, including Shelley's The Cenci (1819).


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It is rather for Shelley's shorter poems, his lyrics, that I would try to gain your love at present, for although he wrote The Cenci, the best tragedy of his time, a tragedy which by its terror and pain links him with Shakespeare, it is as a lyric poet that we love Shelley.
Not by the horrible things imputed both ways; I know (though it's not modern to say so) that human nature in the highest places is still capable of being Cenci or Borgia.
 
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