Count Francesco Cenci, a 16th-century Roman nobleman, had a long record of cruel and violent behavior. In September of 1598, villagers found the count's body in a ravine at the bottom of his castle. His family claimed that he accidentally fell from the castle's balcony, but the inconsistencies in their stories led the villagers of La Petrella to believe that Francesco had not died by accident. Had Francesco's beautiful 21-year-old daughter Beatrice Cenci finally tire of her father's abuse and have him murdered?

Sources:

"Beatrice Cenci" Murderpedia. https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cenci-beatrice.htm

Guerrazzi, Francesco Domenico. Beatrice Cenci: Storia del secolo XVI. (Pisa, 1854). 

Jack, Belinda. Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci  (New York: Other Press, 2005.)

The New York Times

"Beatrice Cenci Rescued From Prejudice and Myth" 20 December, 1925.

"The Legend of Beatrice Cenci Disproved by New Facts." 22 July, 1923.

Nicholl, Charles. "Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci." The London Review of Books. 2 July, 1998. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n13/charles-nicholl/screaming-in-the-castle-the-case-of-beatrice-cenci

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Ricci, Corrado. Trans. Morris Bishop and Henry Longan Stuart. Beatrice Cenci. Vol. 1 &2. (London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd., 1925).

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts. (London : C and J Ollier Vere street, Bond street, 1821).

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