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An electrifying tale of female rage and resistance that gives voice to the tragic and remarkable story of a young Roman noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci. Rome, 1599. A young noblewoman accused of murder, awaits execution. Imprisoned in the Corte Savella, she has captured the hearts and sympathy...
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An electrifying tale of female rage and resistance that gives voice to the tragic and remarkable story of a young Roman noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.
Rome, 1599.
A young noblewoman accused of murder, awaits execution. Imprisoned in the Corte Savella, she has captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome...
This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci.
History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father's brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father's demise. No, this Beatriceβa woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rageβis both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner.
And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781405967914
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 288g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen's Gambit and recently an acclaimed feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law)), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Disobedient, her feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, won the 2024 Historical Writers Gold Crown Award. She lives in London.
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