"I don't know if maybe I saw it on social media first, or I dreamt it, I don't know. I just know that I (woke up and) went to her and I said that I wanted to do pole dance," Cesarini said.
Three years later, in 2021 she competed in the International Pole Sports Federation's virtual world pole and aerial championship.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, pole dancers from around the world submitted videos of their performances and were judged virtually. She was the only athlete to compete in the disability category and was awarded the gold medal.
But she chose an increasingly popular sport that anyone would find difficult.
"It makes me feel free," she said in her family's apartment near Perugia in central Italy, where she practices at home and trains with her coach Elena Imbrogno in a local gym.
At a recent training session, as she hung upside down and twirled, Imbrogno told her to try it again but with her head just a bit straighter.
She has one prosthetic leg, but when he she was about eight years old she decided to stop using artificial forearms because she found them inhibiting.
"She still doesn't want them," said her mother Valeria Mencaroni, 47.
"Francesca is a girl who knows what she wants. She wants to achieve certain goals," said her father Marco Cesarini, 57. "Francesca is like this, this is it. She has never had that limb, or hands, and so she does everything with what she has."
And, he might have added, she did it without any help from Harry Potter's wand.