Background
Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper.
Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci, the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper.
He kept various mistresses and was even prosecuted for unnatural vice, but his sons were equally dissolute.
Two other sons, Rocco and Cristoforo, both of them notorious rakes, were killed in brawls.
Giacomo afterwards had one of the bravos murdered, but the other was arrested by the Neapolitan authorities and confessed everything.
Guerra escaped;
He was very quarrelsome and lived on the worst possible terms with his children, who, however, were all of them more or less disreputable.
