Historical Examples

• The first volume comprises the annals of the Borgias and the Cenci.

  Quotes and Images From "Celebrated Crimes"

  Alexander Dumas, Pere

• The Cenci is a work of art; it is not coloured by my feelings, nor obscured by my metaphysics.

  Shelley

  John Addington Symonds

• Passing to The Cenci, we change at once the moral and artistic atmosphere.

  Shelley

  John Addington Symonds

• "It is the finest thing since the portrait of the Cenci," said the noble patron.

  Lothair

  Benjamin Disraeli

• In support of my interpretation, of it I may refer to the Preface to the Cenci.

  Oxford Lectures on Poetry

  Andrew Cecil Bradley