The Cenci (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- First Published: 1819
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: 1599
- Setting: Rome and the Apennines
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy, Closet drama
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Incest, Rape, Assassination, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Popes or papacy, Romanticism, Rome
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Apennines, Italy
Characters Discussed
Count Francesco Cenci (frahn- CHEHS-koh CHEHN-chee), a Roman nobleman who lives to make people suffer. His special target for punishment is his family. He persecutes his sons—two of whom are sent to Salamanca to die—his wife, and his daughter Beatrice, against whom he commits unmentionable crimes. Finally, he is assassinated, but even in death his baleful influence continues: His wife and daughter, though literally innocent, die for his murder.
Count Orsino (ohr-SEE-noh), a nobleman turned priest who is responsible for much of the scheming that...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (Censorship--Ready Reference series)Percy Bysshe Shelley (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poetry)Percy Bysshe Shelley (Dictionary of World Biography)Percy Bysshe Shelley (Drama)
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