BEATRICE CENCI, UNA STORIA MALEDETTA / BEATRICE CENCI, A CURSED STORY
Accused in 1599 with her brothers and her stepmother to be the instigator of the killing of Francesco Cenci, her father, Beatrice Cenci was the central character of one of the most infamous and controversial trial of Renaissance’s Rome. His life ended when he was 22 on the scaffold. Was Beatrice guilty? Probably yes. But today she would be sentenced to a very mild judgment, since the circumstances. Today, the papers of the trial that magnetized the eyes of everyone in Rome, help to rewrite the chronicle under a new point of view, focusing on the political and economical background that influenced the verdict and made Beatrice’s affair a cursed story that charmed great writers like Standhal and Dumas.
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