Who was Beatrice Cenci and why is her portrait one of the most copied? ANTIQUES ROADSHOW takes a look at one of the most famous trials of the sixteenth-century.

In December 1963, Frank Sinatra Jr. was abducted at gunpoint from his hotel room by two men seeking a $240,000 ransom. After Sinatra Jr. was released and returned to his family, rumors circulated in the press that the singer’s 19-year-old son fabricated the kidnapping. Having kept silent for some time, Frank Sinatra Sr. finally spoke out in a letter to a priest.

During the summer of 1928, British author Radclyffe Hall published a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian relationship, bringing the subject of homosexuality into the country’s literary culture. While lesbianism was not considered illegal at the time, the book was deemed illegal for violating the Obscene Publications Act of 1857, and was quickly removed from circulation.