Chapter

 1 1 |       this gravestone is buried Beatrice Cenci, whose tragical story
 2 3 |    against his second daughter, Beatrice Cenci, following the example
 3 3 |      severity; but now, to poor Beatrice's great astonishment, he
 4 3 |         gentle and even tender. Beatrice was a child no longer; her
 5 3 |         that of her stepmother, Beatrice knew not good from evil:
 6 3 |        vision vanished, leaving Beatrice full of trouble and amazement. ~
 7 3 |    Hardly knowing what she did, Beatrice yet perceived the impropriety
 8 3 |       prayers were of no avail. Beatrice wrapped herself up in the
 9 3 |         women who passed before Beatrice's door; violence had compelled
10 3 |       undergo this humiliation. Beatrice was too far off to see her
11 3 |       the middle of this orgy. ~Beatrice there saw incredible and
12 3 |       daughters, and in the end Beatrice committed a crime without
13 3 |          He forced Lucrezia and Beatrice to share the same bed, threatening
14 3 |   Lucrezia did was to enlighten Beatrice an the infamy of the life
15 4 |           No sooner had he seen Beatrice than he fell in love with
16 4 |       should demand the hand of Beatrice from her father, and the
17 4 |     resume his intercourse with Beatrice; but she was no longer the
18 4 |       that a reason existed why Beatrice could be neither his wife
19 4 |        sought an interview with Beatrice in vain; at length he succeeded
20 4 |         of this horrible story: Beatrice confessed all. Henceforth
21 4 |       we have said, the mind of Beatrice was susceptible to the best
22 4 |         Giacomo, had often seen Beatrice, and loved her, but with
23 4 |        would draw him nearer to Beatrice, he accepted his part in
24 4 |     tyrannise over Lucrezia and Beatrice, sent back to Rome Giacomo
25 4 |      his infamous attempts upon Beatrice, and with such persistence,
26 5 |       about the castle; one day Beatrice saw them from a window,
27 5 |       there with his companion. Beatrice awaited them at a window
28 5 |     acting out of pure love for Beatrice, whom he worshipped as a
29 5 |      Petroni. Towards midnight, Beatrice fetched them out of their
30 5 |      What is the matter?" cried Beatrice; "and what hinders you?" ~"
31 5 |        struck with pity." ~Then Beatrice disdainfully raised her
32 5 |          everybody supposed, as Beatrice and her stepmother had foreseen,
33 5 |       was the laundress to whom Beatrice entrusted the sheet in which
34 5 |     laundress, who deposed that Beatrice had given her a bloodstained
35 6 |         Bernardo, Lucrezia, and Beatrice; they were at first confined
36 6 |      knowledge of the assassin. Beatrice, above all, displayed the
37 6 |   forgiveness from God and from Beatrice; neither threats nor tortures
38 6 | confessed all she knew. ~As for Beatrice, she continued unmoved;
39 6 |     whole interrogatory, and as Beatrice up to that time had only
40 7 |                Having seen that Beatrice was sentenced to the torture
41 7 |     perceiving the obstinacy of Beatrice, had ordered that the accused,
42 7 |     torture chamber, and seeing Beatrice hanging by the wrists, her
43 7 |      thus tortured." ~Then said Beatrice, shaking her head as if
44 7 |         to deny, I will deny." ~Beatrice was then lowered and untied;
45 7 |         in the memorial sent by Beatrice to His Holiness, petitioning
46 8 |         came from him, and that Beatrice in particular had been dragged
47 8 |        the cell of Lucrezia and Beatrice to read their sentences
48 8 |  prepare to appear before God. ~Beatrice was at first thunderstruck:
49 8 |        to the chapel, exhorting Beatrice to resignation; but she,
50 8 |         sacraments; after which Beatrice, observing to her stepmother
51 8 |     made of black cotton stuff, Beatrice's of taffetas. In addition
52 8 |    moment was approaching. Then Beatrice, who was still on her knees,
53 8 |      themselves with the cords; Beatrice placed her turban on her
54 9 |         it was the one given by Beatrice to Marzio to pledge him
55 9 |         was the fashion; whilst Beatrice, as a young unmarried girl,
56 9 |         two, wept bitterly; but Beatrice was firm and unmoved. On
57 9 |         for the decapitation of Beatrice, several stands, full of
58 9 |        chapel to take charge of Beatrice, who, on seeing the sacred
59 9 |    given orders that the moment Beatrice was extended on the scaffold
60 9 |         of everybody, including Beatrice herself, who, not expecting
61 10|      before. He wished to place Beatrice's body with that of her
62 10|        the evening, the body of Beatrice, covered with flowers, and
63 10|       by Guido, the portrait of Beatrice, taken, some say the night
64 10|     people to suppose him to be Beatrice herself: he might be fourteen