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Tom Cenci, the chef at the Loyal Tavern in south-east London, flags up salty staple ingredients such as capers, parmesan and anchovies, while Aktar Islam, from Opheem in Birmingham, recommends the brine from tinned pulses: “There’s a Bajan recipe I do that uses lentils. I never season it, because I just pour the brine in, while cooking the lentils.”

Her oval-faced, dreamy-eyed niece May Prinsep posed as Beatrice Cenci, the tragic heroine of a painting by Guido Reni and later a play by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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In a public expression of his opinion in The Examiner of March 19, 1820, Hunt pronounced The Cenci the greatest dramatic production of the day.

But at the same time he asserted that Shelley had written much that was unmetaphysical and poetically beautiful, as The Cenci, the Ode to a Skylark and Adonais.