An Inventory of the Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Subject:
Cenci Family
Title:
Cenci Family Collection
Dates:
circa 1650-1821
Extent:
1 box (1.00 linear feet)
Abstract:
The collection includes three
manuscript accounts of the execution of Beatrice Cenci and other members of the
Cenci family at Rome in 1599 for the murder of the family patriarch, Francesco
Cenci. The incident has been the subject of a number of literary and musical works,
including Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The
Cenci (1819).
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-0730
Language:
One manuscript is written in English and two are written in Italian.
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Michael Ramsey, 2011
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a
card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the
abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
