ELEONORA AND JOSEPH

ELEONORA AND JOSEPH
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As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading revolutionaries of her time, Eleonora contributed to the establishment of the Neapolitan Republic, based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Imprisoned in 1799 after the return of the Bourbon Monarchy, and while waiting to be sentenced, she writes a memoir. Here, she discusses not only her revolutionary enthusiasm, but also the adolescent lover who abandoned her, Joseph Correia da Serra. <br>While visiting Monticello many years later, Joseph discovers Eleonora&#39;s manuscript in Thomas Jefferson&#39;s library. Now retired, Jefferson is committed to founding the University of Virginia and entices Correia with a position when the institution opens. As the two philosophes explore Eleonora&#39;s writing through the lens of their own lives, achievements, and follies, they share many intimate secrets. <br>Told from Eleonora and Joseph&#39;s alternating points of view, the interwoven first-person narratives follow the characters from the elegant salons of Naples to the halls of Monticello, from the streets of European capitals such as Lisbon, London, and Paris to the cultured new world of Philadelphia and the chic soirées in Washington.<br>Eleonora and Joseph were both prominent figures of the Southern European Enlightenment. Together with Thomas Jefferson, they formed part of The Republic of Letters, a formidable network of thinkers who radically influenced the intellectual world in which they lived and which we still inhabit today.

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Julieta Almeida Rodrigues. ELEONORA AND JOSEPH

Praise for Eleonora and Joseph

A Novel

About This Book

Prologue. Standing Before the High Court

Chapter 1. Joseph: Discovery

Chapter 2. Eleonora: Awakenings

Chapter 3. Joseph: Remembrance

Chapter 4. Eleonora: The Jacobin Marquise

Chapter 5. Joseph: Revolution

Chapter 6. Eleonora: Sorrow

Chapter 7. Joseph: Disclosures

Chapter 8. Eleonora: Desire

Chapter 9. Joseph: Utopia

Chapter 10. Eleonora: Betrayal

Chapter 11. Joseph: Melancholy

Chapter 12. Eleonora: Crossroads

Chapter 13. Joseph: Contemplation

Epilogue. An Execution in Naples

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

About The Author

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Eleonora and Joseph "Following the strong tradition of Portuguese female writers, novelist Julieta Almeida Rodrigues brings to Eleonora and Joseph her experience of both the 1974 revolution in Portugal and her life in diplomatic circles around the world. The life of Joseph Correia da Serra has been the subject of biographies in Portuguese, while his contacts with Thomas Jefferson deserve to be explored in English. In addition, Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel's narration from prison is a striking frame from which to foreground issues of passion, patriarchy, inequality, slavery, and struggles for female independence. A must read of imaginary lives in European and American intellectual circles at the end of the 18th century!"

—Kenneth David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese, Yale University

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“You gave a talk on my friend?”

“I described Mr. Franklin as the ultimate representative of Les Lumières, the Enlightenment. I spoke about his revolutionary ideals, his internationalism, and his experiments in electricity.”

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