Description:Chapters: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario, Giovanna Bonanno, Matteuccia de Francesco, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Beatrice Cenci (February 6, 1577 - September 11, 1599) was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome. Beatrice was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with papal justice more than once. They lived in Rome in the rione Regola, in the Palazzo Cenci, built over the ruins of a medieval fortified palace at the edge of Rome's Jewish ghetto. Together with them lived also Beatrice's elder brother Giacomo, Francesco's second wife, Lucrezia Petroni, and Bernardo, the young boy born from Francesco's second marriage. Among their other possessions there was a castle, La Rocca of Petrella Salto, a small village near Rieti, north of Rome. According to the legend, Francesco Cenci abused his wife and his sons, and had reached the point of committing incest with Beatrice. He had been jailed for other crimes, but thanks to the leniency with which the nobles were treated, he had been freed early. Beatrice had tried to inform the authorities about the frequent mistreatments, but nothing had happened, although everybody in Rome knew what kind of person her father was. When he found out that his daughter had reported against him, he sent Beatrice and Lucrezia away from Rome, to live in the family's country castle. The four Cenci decided they had no alternative but to try to get rid of Francesco, and all together organised a plot. In 1598, during one of Francesco's stays at the castle, two vassals (one of whom had become Beatric...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15655We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Executed Italian Women: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario. To get started finding Executed Italian Women: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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28
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2010
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1157290264
Executed Italian Women: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario
Description: Chapters: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario, Giovanna Bonanno, Matteuccia de Francesco, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Beatrice Cenci (February 6, 1577 - September 11, 1599) was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome. Beatrice was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with papal justice more than once. They lived in Rome in the rione Regola, in the Palazzo Cenci, built over the ruins of a medieval fortified palace at the edge of Rome's Jewish ghetto. Together with them lived also Beatrice's elder brother Giacomo, Francesco's second wife, Lucrezia Petroni, and Bernardo, the young boy born from Francesco's second marriage. Among their other possessions there was a castle, La Rocca of Petrella Salto, a small village near Rieti, north of Rome. According to the legend, Francesco Cenci abused his wife and his sons, and had reached the point of committing incest with Beatrice. He had been jailed for other crimes, but thanks to the leniency with which the nobles were treated, he had been freed early. Beatrice had tried to inform the authorities about the frequent mistreatments, but nothing had happened, although everybody in Rome knew what kind of person her father was. When he found out that his daughter had reported against him, he sent Beatrice and Lucrezia away from Rome, to live in the family's country castle. The four Cenci decided they had no alternative but to try to get rid of Francesco, and all together organised a plot. In 1598, during one of Francesco's stays at the castle, two vassals (one of whom had become Beatric...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15655We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Executed Italian Women: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario. To get started finding Executed Italian Women: Clara Petacci, Beatrice Cenci, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Giulia Tofana, Florence Lassandro, Polissena of San Macario, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.