Inês de Castro

yesterday, today and always

Abstract

On the fateful day of January 7, 1355, Ines de Castro died, a historical figure who kept alive until contemporary. From the few lines dedicated to it in the Chronicles of Fernão Lopes, the Galician figure lives in each of the countless rereadings that the Asian myth has been flashing over time, in records, sometimes paraphrastic, but also stylized or parodic. As Vasco Pereira da Costa rightly put it, “the story [of Pedro and Inês] is more than told, poets lyricalized it, historians historicised it, prose writers prose it, playwrights theatricalized it. And from so much to work on it always arose another (...). Always else, I don’t say well, because, in the end, nothing else or the fate of the people who made this story: I know that any author who resumes, revives or tempo and these lives (...) will be obliged in the end (. ) to calm or tempo”. This intervention aims to explore the historical romance Ines de Castro: espiã, amante, rainha de Portugal, by Isabel Stilwell, so that we can trace a path of the mythical-historical character, or rather, perceive how Ines de Castro was or was not always emerging other, considering above all the historical and feminine optics.