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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.
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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.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
 
 
 
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