person
Mariana Alcoforado
the Portuguese nun
also: the Portuguese woman, die Portugiesin
The Portuguese nun traditionally held to be the author of the Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters of abandoned love to a French officer; with Gaspara Stampa, Rilke's type of the woman whose love turns its very torment into an 'austere, icy splendor.'
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §395 Portuguese woman
Mariana Alcoforado, the Portuguese nun (1640--1723) by tradition the author of the 'Letters of a Portuguese Nun'; for Malte the same lament, five centuries after Héloïse.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §437 Marianna Alcoforado
Mariana Alcoforado (1640--1723), the Portuguese nun long held to be the author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun; her cloister, like the actress's calling, a disguise to be wretched behind.