9/11 1599, charged with the murder of her father Francesco, Beatrice Cenci was executed by the papal state becoming ever sins a legendary female figure that reminds us of the intense repressions suffered by a noble young woman in late Renaissance Italy;

400 years after the execution, numerable tour guides still reference to her headless body walking around Sant’Angelo Bridge at night as it said Beatrice Cenci still haunts Rome.

The world famous tragedy starts with Francesco’s constant problem with justice and his violent and corrupted temperament that heavily influenced the family life in its palace. 
In the attempt to avoid the provision of a dowry for Beatrice which could worsen his financial situation, Francesco decided to shut her and his wife Lucrezia in a family tower located in Petrella del Salto by the Appennines in 1595, where he also retired himself two years later.

In this harsh situation of imprisonment, Beatrice plotted and succeeded to murder her father with the complicity of the stepmother Lucrezia.

The story of The Cenci abruptly ends the following year with the famous executions and the organized dissolution of their properties.

A beautiful teenager who kills her brutal father to protect her virtue from his incestuous advances; who resists interrogation and torture with unswerving courage; and who goes to her execution unrepentant and borne along on a wave of popular sympathy.

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