Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

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Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

Eleonora Anna Naria Felice de Fonseca Pimentel (Leonor da Fonseca Pimentel Chaves, born January 13, 1752 in Rome , † August 20, 1799 in Naples ) was a Portuguese Italian-speaking poet at the time of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples and the short-lived Parthenopean Republic by the grace of France.

Life

Her parents, who came from Portugal, were of aristocratic origin and moved to Naples in 1760. Privileged, "Leonor" wrote poetry and read Greek and Latin as a child.

In the 1870s she moved in the Neapolitan intellectual circles. Her writings were shaped by illustrationistic and Masonic ideas and she corresponded with intellectuals of her time, including Metastasio . At that time she even dedicated glorifying poems to Queen Maria Carolina , who was initially rather liberal .

In 1798 she was briefly arrested for Jacobin activities, but was released in the course of the establishment of the Parthenopean Republic in 1799 and became one of its main proponents. For example, she was the editor of the newspaper Il Monitore Napoletano , the official newspaper of the Parthenopean Republic.

When the royal couple, who had fled to Sicily , managed to return to Naples with the help of the English admiral Horatio Nelson , a terrible criminal judgment was passed on the exponents of the Parthenopean Republic. She was imprisoned and sentenced to death along with leading politicians from the republic and practically the entire republican elite of Naples . She climbed the scaffold with the quote from Virgil : Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ( “One day it will be joy to remember” ).

literature

  • Benedetto Croce , Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel , Roma, Tipografia Nazionale, 1887
  • Bice Gurgo, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel , Napoli, Cooperativa Libreria, 1935
  • Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, Cara Eleonora , Milano, Rizzoli, 1993
  • Elena Urgnani, La Vicenda Letteraria e Politica di Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel , Napoli, La Città del Sole, 1998
  • Enzo Striano, Il resto di niente. Storia di Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel e della rivoluzione napoletana del 1799 , Napoli, Avagliano 1999; Milano, Rizzoli, 2001, 2004
  • Nico Perrone , La Loggia della Philantropia , Palermo, Sellerio, 2006 ISBN 8-83892-141-5
  • Teresa Santos - Sara Marques Pereira (ed.), Leonor da Fonseca Pimentel. A Portuguesa de Nápoles (1752–1799) , “Actas do colóquio realizado no bicentenário da morte de Leonor da Fonseca Pimentel”, Lisboa , Horizonte, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Fonseca Pimentel, Eleonora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fonseca Pimentel, Eleonora De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1799
Place of death Naples