The daughter of Francesco Cenci, an abusive aristocrat whom she murdered with her brothers; the story was the basis for Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci (1820).

REFERENCES TO Beatrice Cenci:

Edward Ellerker Williams to Edward John Trelawny, April 1821 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858)