The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley

The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Dramatis Personae

COUNT FRANCESCO CENCI. GIACOMO, BERNARDO, HIS SONS. CARDINAL CAMILLO. PRINCE COLONNA. ORSINO, A PRELATE. SAVELLA, THE POPE’S LEGATE. OLIMPIO, MARZIO, ASSASSINS. ANDREA, SERVANT TO CENCI. NOBLES. JUDGES. GUARDS, SERVANTS. LUCRETIA, WIFE OF CENCI AND STEP-MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN. BEATRICE, HIS DAUGHTER.

The Scene Lies Principally in Rome, but Changes During the Fourth Act to Petrella, a Castle Among the Apulian Apennines

Time. During the Pontificate of Clement VIII