The first volume comprises the annals of the Borgias and the Cenci.
Passing to The Cenci, we change at once the moral and artistic atmosphere.
The Cenci is a work of art; it is not coloured by my feelings, nor obscured by my metaphysics.
"It is the finest thing since the portrait of the Cenci," said the noble patron.
Shelley in the Cenci seems to me to have come nearest to this ideal.
In support of my interpretation, of it I may refer to the Preface to the Cenci.
"The Cenci" is austere; for Shelley, it is athletically economical.
I received a copy of the Cenci, as from yourself, from Hunt.
The sense in which Shelley intends to apply it to The Cenci may admit of some doubt.
The Barberini Palace contains other treasures beside the Cenci.
