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Cen·ci   (chěn'chē)   
Italian noblewoman who was beheaded for patricide. She was the subject of a number of poems and other works of art, including Shelley's The Cenci (1819).
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Cenci, Beatrice

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.

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