#Mariana Alcoforado

• Alcoforado — Mariana Alcoforado (1640–1723), a Portuguese nun from Beja, historically considered the alleged author of the famous 'Portuguese Letters' (Lettres portugaises), published in France in 1669. This epistolary work contains five passionate and desperate love letters addressed to a French officer, representing a structural monument of European passionate literature and a subject heavily debated by critics regarding the authenticity or authorship of the text.