A história agradou-me e é sempre engraçado como lá fora encontram pormenores da nossa cultura que nós desconhecemos ou muitas vezes simplesmente, ignoramos!
Trata de cartas de amor de uma freira portuguese que no século XVII foi descoberta em pleno delito! Deixo-vos aqui o detalhe:
Until the 20th century, the letters were ascribed to a 17th century Franciscan nun in a convent in Beja, Portugal, "identified" in 1810 as Marianna Alcoforado (1640-1723), who was said to be writing to her French lover, the Marquis de Chamilly (1635-1715), who came to Portugal to fight on behalf of the Portuguese in their struggle for independence from 1663-1668. The passionate letters were a European publishing sensation (in part because on their presumed authenticity) and set a precedent for sentimentalism and for the literary genres of the sentimental novel and the epistolary novel into the 18th century. A 2006 book written by Myriam Cyr argues that the letters are in fact authentic.
Dated between December 1667 and June 1668, the five letters described the successive stages of faith, doubt and despair through which the Portuguese writer passed. The letters could also be considered pieces of unconscious psychological self-analysis. The five short letters written by Marianna to "expostulate her desertion" form one of the few documents of extreme human experience and reveal a passion which, in the course of three centuries, has lost nothing of its heat. Their absolute candour, exquisite tenderness, and entire self-abandonment have excited the wonder and admiration of great men and women in every age from Madame de Sévigné to Gladstone
