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RICCI, Corrado. Beatrice Cenci. Translated from the Italian by Morris Bishop and Henry Logan Stuart.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. In two volumes. Second printings. Tall 8vo., cloth. Bookplate otherwise fine in near fine dustwrappers.
"The last tragic act in a criminal affair that was destined to become a symbol of the cruel justice administered in sixteenth-century Rome took place on 11 September 1599. At the scaffold that had been erected on Ponte Sant'Angelo, Beatrice Cenci, aged 23, and her stepmother Lucrezia Petroni were beheaded for murdering Francesco Cenci, the father and husband respectively of the accused. Giacomo, Beatrice's brother and accomplice, was tortured with red-hot pincers, struck on the head with a bludgeon and finally quartered, while her other brother, Bernardo, just twelve, was forced to watch the brutal execution of his family and was later condemned to life imprisonment."