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Cenci, the

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Roman family celebrated for their crimes and misfortunes as well as their wealth.

wice married, had had twelve children by his first wife, whom he treated cruelly; after his second marriage cruelly treated the children of his first wife, but conceived a criminal passion for the youngest of them, a beautiful girl named

hom he outraged, upon which, being unable to bring him to justice, she, along with her stepmother and a brother, hired two assassins to murder him; the crime was found out, and all three were be headed; this is the story on which Shelley founded his tragedy, but it is now discredited.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cenci, the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/cenci-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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