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	Letters of a Portuguese Nun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Letters of a Portuguese Nun were written by the 17th century Franciscan nun, Marianna Alcoforado, to Noel Bouton, later Marquis de Chamilly.
		The letters to her lover which have earned her renown in literature were written between December 1667 and June 1668, and they described the successive stages of faith, doubt and despair through which she passed.
		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 two centuries has lost nothing of its heat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Letters_of_a_Portuguese_Nun (279 words)

	Marianna Alcoforado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are signs in the fifth letter that Marianna had begun to conquer her passion, and after a life of rigid penance, accompanied by much suffering, she died at the age of eighty-three.
		The letters created a sensation on their first appearance, running through five editions in a year, and, to exploit their popularity, second parts, replies and new replies were issued from the press in quick succession.
		Notwithstanding that the Portuguese original of the five letters is lost, their genuineness is as patent as the spuriousness of their followers, and though Jean-Jacques Rousseau was ready to wager they were written by a man, the principal critics of Portugal and France have decided against him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marianna_Alcoforado (516 words)

	Nun
		In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent.
		The male equivalent of a nun is a monk.
		The "Portuguese Letters" were published anonymously in 1669, alleged translations into French of letters written by a Portuguese nun to a French officer who had loved and left her.
	www.jahsonic.com /Nun.html (1047 words)

	ipedia.com: Portuguese language literature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The line of the chroniclers which is one of the boasts of Portuguese literature began with Fernão Lopes, who compiled the chronicles of the reigns of Kings Pedro, Fernando, and John I. He combined a passion for accurate statement with a especial talent for descriptive writing and portraiture, and with him a new epoch dawns.
		Portuguese pastoral poetry is more natural and sincere than that of the other nations because Ribeiro, the founder of the bucolic school, sought inspiration in the national serranilhas, but his eclogues, despite their feeling and rhythmic harmony, are surpassed by the "Crisfal" of Christovão Falcão.
		Letter writing is represented by such master hands as D. Francisco Manuel de Mello in familiar epistles, Frei Antonio das Chagas in spiritual, and by five short but eloquent documents of human affection, the "Cartas de Marianna Alcoforada".
	www.ipedia.com /portuguese_language_literature.html (4872 words)

	Portugal Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Portuguese writing officially began in the 12th century when Henri de Bourgogne, father of the country's first king, brought with his court several French scholars and literary gentlemen.
		One of the remarkable events in the 17th century was the discovery of a series of love letters written in French by a Portuguese nun, Sister Mariana Alcoforado, after she had fallen in love with a French cavalry officer.
		The first Portuguese Romantics and the most notable representatives of the movement were Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), author of several romances, epics and lyrical dramas, and Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (1810-77), a historian who also wrote novels.
	www.portugaltravelguide.com /en/literature (725 words)

	ALCOFORADO, MARIANNA (1640-1723) - Online Information article about ALCOFORADO, MARIANNA (1640-1723)
		Nun, was the daughter of a landed proprietor in See also:
		littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e.
		Edgar Prestage in his translation The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Marianna Alcoforado), 3rd ed.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/ALCOFORADO_MARIANNA_1640_1723_.html (972 words)

	lovelettersofaportuguesenun_review
		Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun returns to the roots of the nunsploitation genre with full abandon and sleaze, given that some of the atrocities on screen are stronger than most of the Italian counterparts.
		Pretty 15 year old Marie Rosalea [Susan Hemingway], a girl of low birth, is sent to a convent of Serra d’Ares, by her trusting mother upon the advice of Father Vicente [William Berger], who convinces that her daughter is basking in the ways of sin owing to her attraction to a local boy, Cristobal.
		She writes to her mother, imploring her help, however her letter is intercepted by her captors and she is made to walk on a bed of thorns.
	www.cinema-nocturna.com /lovelettersofaportuguesenun_revi.htm (1730 words)

	Prof traces formation of national myth
		Mariana Alcoforado, a 17th-century nun, was the presumed author of five celebrated love letters that originally appeared in 1669 in French under the title of Lettres portugaise (known in their many English editions as Portuguese Letters or Letters of a Portuguese Nun).
		The letters, ostensibly written by Alcoforado, cloistered in a provincial Portuguese convent, to her departed lover, an officer in the French army, are nowadays generally reputed to have been a literary fake authored by a 17th -century French writer.
		The Portuguese Nun, written by assistant professor of Romance languages Anna Klobucka, describes the foundation and development of the myth of Soror Mariana and illuminates Portugal’s continuing investment in the fabrication, by the country’s cultural elite, of a shared national imagination.
	www.uga.edu /columns/010108/weeklyread.html (270 words)

	The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun - Wal-Mart
		The Portuguese Letters were published anonymously in 1669, achieving instant success, and exciting a host of sequels and imitations.
		The nun was identified more than a hundred years later as Mariana Alcoforado (1640-1713), a Portuguese gentlewoman cloistered in the Franciscan convent of Beja.
		The letters display a remarkable acuity of psychological insight into the mind of a woman in love, attesting to a slow but crucial development of self-awareness and a beautifully controlled treatment of passion on the edge of hysteria.
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=595152 (656 words)

	Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
		After being subjected to a catalogue of abuses, Maria attempts to have one of the other nuns smuggle out a letter to her mother, but is betrayed, leading to further punishment.
		Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun is another in a growing list of Jesus Franco films that can be presented to the nay-sayer as evidence of the man's genuine ability.
		VIP's Region 0 NTSC DVD of Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun is presented as the second entry in their ongoing Jesus Franco collection, which will ultimately encompass all 15 titles the director produced under the aegis of Erwin C Dietrich's Elite/Ascot company.
	www.kinocite.co.uk /14/1455.php (704 words)

	DVD Times - Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Very little of that description would suggest that the titular love letters feature even a little but Franco puts a theme of redemption throughout the film, with Maria seeking a way out of the convent via a letter that she writes to God.
		If, though, Franco's cast of nuns are not as beautiful as the building they inhabit, think of this as him being left with a limited number of young actresses willing to drop their wimples on his command.
		As it is, Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun ends with the prince saying little more than, "Hold up...she's not guilty, they are!" as he points to the spot that Vicente and the Mother Superior had recently departed.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13145 (1292 words)

	Klobucka, The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth
		Ostensibly written by a nun cloistered in a provincial Portuguese convent to her departed lover, an officer in the French army, they are nowadays widely reputed to have been a literary fake authored by a seventeenth-century French writer.
		While discussions of the text on the international scene have traditionally foregrounded the issue of its author's gender and psychological identity, eschewing the question of his or her nationality, the Portuguese debate has, by contrast, intimately linked both aspects, inscribing the mythical figure of "Soror Mariana" within the literary and cultural history of the nation.
		The Portuguese Nun examines the process of national reappropriation of the text from the Romantic period until its latest, postmodern manifestations exemplified most remarkably by the feminist manifesto Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters).
	cogweb.ucla.edu /EarlyModern/Klobucka_00.html (345 words)

	LOVE LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN
		A young girl, Maria, is caught in flagrante delicto with her lover by Father Vicente, who belongs to the nearby Serreda Iris cloister.
		She is brought to Serreda Iris, where the nuns seem to have an unusual interest in her beautiful body.
		It soon becomes clear that the monks and nuns of Serreda Iris are actually satanists who perform fl masses and lewd rituals to honor the Honored One.
	www.lfvw.com /love_letters_port_nun.html (222 words)

	Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun is one of the movies that created the nunsploitation genre, a subgenre of sexploitation.
		You see, the story of Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun is not very exciting or creative.
		The main attraction are the interviews with producer Erwin C. Dietrich, director Jess Franco, Franco's wife and actress Lina Romay and Portuguese Nun-actor Herbert Fux.
	www.free-webspace.biz /grindhouse/portuguesenun.html (885 words)

	AIM25: King's College London College Archives: PRESTAGE, Professor Edgar (1869-1951)
		There is also a letter of 1881 from Antonio Candido Goncalves Crespo to Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho (father and mother of Prestage's wife).
		System of arrangement: Some letters are bound in three volumes (two volumes Portuguese, the other English), two of which also contain ephemera.
		Other letters are located in files which reflect the subject themes of Prestage's work.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/6/3016.htm (503 words)

	Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
		She will endure sexual humiliation, lesbian groping by the horny nuns, torture by flesh tearing bondage and finally rape by the demon worshipped by the Mother Superior and her secret satanic sect.
		The plan backfires, though, due to a letter written by Maria in desperation, which, by divine intervention, falls into the hands of the enlightened Prince of Portugal, who is having second thoughts about the activities of the Inquisition.
		Susan Hemingway is perfect in the lead role (just compare her to the inept Romina Power in the somewhat similar JUSTINE) and the estimable William Berger handles the tricky role of Father Vicente with subtlety and skill, suggesting that despite his monstrous deceptions, this sexually driven character may once have been a good man.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/I-L/love_letters.html (614 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portuguese Literature
		The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the lingua rustica spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of any foreign tongue.
		The sounds, grammatical forms, and syntactical types, with a few exceptions, are derived from Latin, but the vocabulary has absorbed a number of Germanic and Arabic words, and a few have Celtic or Iberian origin.
		Then the Romanticists went back to tradition and drew on the poetry and every day speech of the people, and, thanks to the writings of such men as Almeida-Garrett and Camillo Castello Branco, the literary language became national once again.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12307a.htm (4375 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: New Portuguese Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a classic reflection on women's lives: the Three Marias expose not only the tyrannical relations between the sexes, but also the everyday betrayals of mothers and daughters, friends and sisters, that restrict women's roles and impede effective social change.
		Perhaps more valuable as a historical document than a work of literature, New Portuguese Letters reflects both the enthusiasm and limitations of its generation: while a compelling example of second-wave feminist literature, the sentiments appear dated from the vantage point of our more jaded age.
		The New Portuguese Letters written by the Three Marias is based on a volume of 17th century letters, supposedly written by a young Portuguese girl, Mariana Alcoforado, whose father placed her in a religious convent when she was sixteen.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0930523989 (437 words)

	Killer Nun
		The 'nasty nun' subgenre of exploitation cinema has become well-documented and beloved by sleaze fans worldwide.
		Ekberg) is not quite right in the head...as the film opens, she is spouting hateful dialogue towards the bastard who raped her years ago, hoping his soul burns in hell rather than forgive him as the Bible says.
		There are smatterings of grain and vertical wavy lines during several sequences, and colors aren't as bold and tasteful as they should be (which probably is the fault of the original film's color scheme).
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/i-m/killernun78.htm (539 words)

	A World of Books 2000: International Classics (Library of Congress)
		The title is taken from a letter written to William and Henry James by their father and is used to convey the dark side of the imagination.
		Couto's work is "a synthesis of three of the main strands in post-colonial African literature: the historical, the existential and the literature of ordinary life." Born in Mozambique in 1957 of first generation Portuguese immigrants, Couto is also an accomplished poet and a first-rate journalist.
		A unique effort, this book is a collaboration of three women named María; the reworking of a classic by a Portuguese woman, a nun, long since dead but still very much in the pantheon of women seeking freedom for themselves and their country.
	www.loc.gov /rr/international/books00.html (8263 words)

	Movie Madness! - KILLER NUN
		Killer Nun was part of a wave of popular “nunsploitation” movies made in the 1970s in which convents were rockin’ with sisters engaging in all kinds of vile behavior, with or without the help of demonic influence.
		Ekberg was 46 when Killer Nun was made, but could still qualify for the “bombshell” category, and flashes her flesh without shame.
		However, her high strung performance is a scream — she chews up every bit of scenery, and during her “love scenes” sounds like she’s suffering a bout of acid reflux.
	www.psychotronic.info /mm/jkl/killernun.htm (713 words)

	Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne, Die (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since this at first seemed to be another of Franco's sick WIP movies, I was initially curious why he had cast the unknown Susan Hemingway in a role usually played by Lina Romay, but it turned out to be a good choice.
		You actually feel sympathy for Hemingway's innocent-looking character when she's tortured and sexually abused by corrupt and lecherous nuns and clergy, whereas these scenes probably would have been merely crass titillation if Romay (who was many things but innocent wasn't one of them) had played the role.
		This movie makes you wonder what Franco could have done if he'd ever made a serious film that did NOT plumb the depths of sexual violence and human depravity.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0076312 (375 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun
		Obviously, for the majority of right-minded citizens this is pretty off-putting stuff - and even the terminally depraved may have issues with some of the more medieval scenes of torture.
		Get me the Devil, I want to ride him!" etc. The screenplay is nothing if not lively and, although the conclusion is daft and contrived, the final sequences at least have the merit of Franco's visual finesse.
		The Love Letters Of A Portugese Nun is perverse, silly, and more than a little depraved.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=133770&page=2 (233 words)

	Amazon.com: The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In five letters, we see the psychological movement from blind, passionate love to an awareness of having been used - while still valuing the lessons of what passion is possible in the heart.
		We see this movement through the letters of a young Portuguese nun who was seduced by a French military officer serving in Portugal.
		While this is a work of the 17th century, the insight into human nature could well have been written yesterday - the culture and the date are no barrier to the text.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860460348?v=glance (426 words)

	The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine
		Not only is Catholicism nearly universal in those countries, the people of Italy and Spain in particular are noted for the devoutness of their religious convictions as well, and for the respect they accord to the church, its representatives, and its institutions.
		The reason for all this rigmarole is that Esteban is in love with a girl named Lucita (Jenny Tamburi, from Frankenstein, Italian Style and Women in Cell Block 7), of the noble house of Fuentes, but Lucita’s parents refuse to countenance the idea of their daughter marrying a commoner— even a comparatively rich one.
		The other nuns’ primary sin— and, indeed, this is what Father Onorio castigates them for when he comes barging in to break up the party— is their quiescence in the face of Incarnacion’s un-nun-like behavior.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/sinfulnunsofstvalentine.htm (1550 words)

	Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
		Yes it's just a straightforward trial of an innocent nun piece, the genre dictates certain scenes have to be in there and they are all here!
		Pervy priests, horny Mother Superiors, lesbian nuns, make that naked lesbian nuns, characters claiming their righteousness when we know otherwise, the infamous inquisition and a good old stake burning.
		The story is not as brutal as some other nun movies.
	www.kinocite.co.uk /printer.php?id=96 (695 words)

	Guilleragues and Alcoforado (1904) Letters from a Portuguese nun to an officer in the French army: Being a reproduction ...
		Guilleragues and Alcoforado (1904) Letters from a Portuguese nun to an officer in the French army: Being a reproduction of the edition of 1817
		Letters from a Portuguese nun to an officer in the French army: Being a reproduction of the edition of 1817
		To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101154256&showStat=Ratings (118 words)

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