Question

What does Beatrice symbolize in The Cenci ?​

Answer 1

Beatrice was the daughter[3] of Ersilia Santacroce and Count Francesco Cenci, a violent and dissolute man.[4] When Beatrice was seven years old, in June 1584, her mother died. After her mother's death, Beatrice and her elder sister Antonina were sent to a small monastery, Santa Croce a Montecitorio for Franciscan Tertiary nuns in the Colonna district of Rome.[5]