Franciscan Authors
Franciscan Authors

Magdalena Eufemia de Gloria (Maria Magdalena Eufémia da Glória/Leonarda Gil da Gama, 1672-1759)

Magdalena Eufemia de Gloria (Maria Magdalena Eufémia da Glória/Leonarda Gil da Gama, 1672-1759) OSC. Portuguese nun from Cintra. Born on 11 May 1672 as the daughter of Elena de Tavora and Henrique Carvalho de Sousa. She made her profession in the Nossa Senhora da Esperança monastery (Lisbon) in 1690 (or on 25 March 1688?). She published under the anagrammatic pseudonym (Leonarda Gil da Gama). Contemporaries referred to her as "fénix dos engenhos" (phoenix of wits). She died in or after 1759.

Works

  • Novena de Santa Rosa de Santa Maria (1734).

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  • Orbe celeste, adornando de brilhantes estrellas e dois ramilhetes (Lisbon: Pedro Ferreira, 1742). [poetry and prose pieces]

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  • Águia real, fénix abrasado, pelicano amante, história panegírica, e vida prodigios do ínclito patriarca Santo Agostinho (Lisbon, 1744).

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  • Reino de Babylonia, ganhado pelas armas do Empyreo. Discurso moral (Lisbon: Pedro Ferreira, 1749). A peculiar emblem book, issued under the pseudonym Leonarda Gil da Gama.

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  • Brados do desengaño contra o profundo sono de esquecimiento. Em tres historias exemplares para meglor conhocerse o pouco, que durao as vaidades do mundo, e o poder dad divinas inspiraçoes (Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues, 1736/Domingo Rodrigues, 1749).

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Literature