D. Leopoldina - by Paulo Rezzuti

After demystifying the figure of D. Pedro, the collection “The Untold Story” presents Empress D. Leopoldina. Known in the Brazilian imagination as the fragile apex of the most famous love triangle in Brazilian history, Maria Leopoldina suffered in the face of the scandal that was her husband's relationship with Domitila de Castro, the future Marchioness of Santos. But her trajectory reveals much more than the woman betrayed in broad daylight. Born in Austria, cultured and refined, she left Europe in 1817 for a transatlantic adventure and became a key political strategist in the Independence process. Leopoldina's biography, however, still seems distant from the majority of Brazilian people. His complex and charismatic figure, his intense and brief life, his combination of fears and courage, strength and fragility, are nuances revealed and described by writer and researcher Paulo Rezzutti in this untold story. The book also includes a notebook of unpublished images and part of original documents to report the reflections, beliefs and anguish of the first empress of Brazil.