Sinópse: Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5 She was the daughter of Francesco Cenci. However little it may be believed that men are born 1n harmony with the age in which they are to live, and that certain ones represent all its virtue and m certain others all its vicious tendencies are inbred, it may, perhaps, be of interest to our readers to glance rapidly over the years immediately preceding the events which we propose to describe. Francesco Cenci will then appear to them as the very incarnation of the diabolism of the age in which he lived. On the eleventh of August, 1492, after the protracted last illness of Innocent VIII., during which two hundred and twenty murders were committed in the streets of Rome, Alexander VI. Ascended the papal throne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.