Beatrice Cenci (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe ˈtʃɛntʃi]; 6 February 1577 – 11 September 1599) [2] was an Italian noblewoman imprisoned by her father, who repeatedly raped her. To escape the abuse and get away from the house, she killed him.

Beatrice Cenci was a young Roman noblewoman whose condemnation to death by Pope Clement VIII aroused public sympathy and became the subject of poems, dramas, and novels, including The Cenci (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Beatrice Cenci (1958) by Alberto Moravia.

2024年11月28日 · Beatrice Cenci, the young Roman noblewoman who murdered her abusive father, was beheaded on a bridge in Rome where her ghost is said to appear once a year.

Read about the tragic life and brutal death of the young Roman Beatrice Cenci, executed for the murder of her father in 1599, and discover how her dramatic story has captured imaginations ever since.

2014年5月5日 · Beatrice Cenci haunts Rome. Though plenty of tour guides are eager to rehash stories of her headless body wandering the Sant’Angelo Bridge at night, she hardly needs that kind of carnival...

2020年4月23日 · In 1599, a terrible story shocked Romans. All eyes were on the young and beautiful noblewoman Beatrice Cenci, accused – and then executed – of parricide. Beatrice’s family was quite problematic. Her mother died when she was 7, her father Count Francesco was a violent and dissolute man.

2023年6月23日 · Beatrice Cenci became a symbol to the commoners of Rome of resistance to the aristocracy, and her death was seen as savage and unnecessary. Did she deserve to be executed for trying to end her father’s pattern of physical and sexual abuse?

2018年11月16日 · The noblewoman Beatrice Cenci died on the 11th September 1599 in Rome. Charged with the murder of her father Francesco Cenci, she was executed in front of Castel Sant'Angelo.

2022年8月19日 · It was the year 1599 and 22-year-old Beatrice Cenci was executed by beheading in front of Castel Sant’Angelo (the Hadrian Mausoleum). To be honest, her story wasn’t so much of an unusual event in Renaissance Rome ruled by the Pope.

On September 11th 1599, Beatrice Cenci (b. 1577), a young Roman noblewoman, was executed for the murder of her tyrannical and abusive father, Count Francesco Cenci. She was beheaded after a lurid trial, which gave rise to her enduring legend.