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Lucrecia gives Cenci a sleeping potion. The assassins kill the Count and conceal his body. Months later, Orsino announces that the Count's body has been discovered. One of the assassins has been killed, and the other has confessed to the murder. Beatrix is arrested for the crime, and then bound and tortured. Finally, she is executed at the ...
Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.. It first appeared in the periodical Le Siècle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form the same year.
Beatrice was the daughter of Ersilia Santacroce and Count Francesco Cenci, [4] a "man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper". [5] When Beatrice was seven years old, in June 1584, her mother died.
Beatrix of Sicily or Beatrice di Sicilia (Palermo, 1260 – Marquisate of Saluzzo, 1307) was a Sicilian princess. In 1296 she became Marchioness consort of Saluzzo. Beatrix was the daughter of Manfred of Sicily and his wife Helena Angelina Doukaina. [1]
Their sister Beatrix had the bodies drawn out of the water and buried. [1] Beatrix is thought to be a manuscript corruption of the name "Viatrix". [2] [3] Then for seven months she lived with a pious woman named Lucina and together they secretly helped persecuted Christians. [4] Finally she was discovered and arrested.
Beatrix was a great-granddaughter of the Hungarian statesman Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her parents divorced in 1931, a year after her birth. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 , Beatrix and her family fled to Germany in order to escape the Communist regime.
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
Beata Beatrix is a painting completed in several versions by Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The painting depicts Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri's 1294 poem La Vita Nuova at the moment of her death. The first version is oil on canvas completed in 1870.