Mariana Alcoforado

Soror Mariana Alcoforado (* April 22, 1640 in Beja, Alentejo, † July 28, 1723 ibid ) was a Portuguese nun and writer.

Alcoforado be attributed to the five most beautiful love letters in the world, the Portuguese letters. Karl Larsen Danish version was by Mathilde man translated into German (Leipzig, 1905). Rainer Maria Rilke transmission appeared in 1913 in Leipzig, the same year the love letters were translated by Georg Hecht. Another translation was made by Walter Widmer (Basel, 1945).

The letters should have been addressed to the French officer Noël Bouton de Marquis Chamilly (1636-1715, 1703 Marshal of France ). Since there are no Portuguese version of these letters, it is believed that the letters from the alleged translator into French, Gabriel de Guilleragues come. They first appeared in 1669 as Lettres portugaises.

Expenditure

• Lettres et portugaises Suites. Introduction, établissement of textes et notes par Anne -Marie Clin -Lalande. Librairie Générale Française, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-253-06318-5.
• Portuguese Letters. The letters of Marianna Alcoforado. Transfer of Rainer Maria Rilke. 15th edition. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-458-8074-0 (formally wrong ISBN ).