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Samenvatting van Liefde is noodlottig
- 8 min. leestijd
- 10 parts
- Binnenkort te beluisteren
A student with two pistols and a farrier's daughter stand between a girl and her father's convent walls in Viseu.
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Liefde is noodlottig in het kort
Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 3 h 40 min2 h 55 min fast, 4 h 20 min slow
- Lengte
- 51.900 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1862by Camilo Castelo Branco
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Liefde is noodlottig in short
Doomed Love tells how two young people in northern Portugal try to love each other against their fathers, a cousin and the law. Simão is a brave, proud student, and Thereza is a stubborn heiress who writes her faith in letters. Around them, the farrier João da Cruz and his daughter Marianna give help that costs them more than anyone knows.
What Liefde is noodlottig is about
What would you do if your father, your cousin and a convent all stood between you and the person you love? Doomed Love opens with that kind of trap, and with a cold fact. Camilo Castelo Branco says he was reading old registers in the Porto Court prison, where he himself sat in 1861, when he found an entry for a student of eighteen named Simão Antonio Botelho.
The margin says he was sent to India in 1807. From that one line the author builds a novel of love and provincial pride, told by a narrator who jokes, scolds and rages at men who kill for honor. The trouble starts in the parents' house.
Voor wie is het?. Readers who enjoy passionate romance, an opinionated storyteller and sharp humor about family pride will love this novel. It also suits those drawn to stories of honor and loyal friends.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A flute-playing judge marries a court lady
The story starts with the parents, not the lovers. Domingos José Correia Botelho is a nobleman from Vila Real. He is extremely ugly and not at all quick. His great gift is the flute, and he wins royal favor and marries a court lady, Dona Rita Preciosa.
Rita never forgives him for taking her away from the palace. When he is posted home as a magistrate, the local nobility meet the couple with old sedan chairs. Rita studies the procession through a gold lorgnette and asks what century the mountain lives in. The husband is jealous and unsure, and the wife looks down on everyone.
Their second son, Simão, is born in 1784. He has the fierce temper of a great-grandfather. His father praises it, and his mother cannot warm to him. Before he ever meets Thereza, he has learned that love at home depends on rank and obedience.
Simão's pride and his family's cold pride are born in the same house.
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A violent student is thrown out of Coimbra
Simão is fifteen when the family settles in Viseu, where his father serves as corregedor, a chief district magistrate.
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Love at a window changes Simão completely
Back in Viseu, Simão changes in three months.
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A jealous cousin lays a trap
Thadeu first tries kindness, then force.
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A farrier repays an old debt of gratitude
The farrier is Master João da Cruz, a huge, plain-spoken man.
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Two convents and a girl who gives all
Thadeu cannot prove who killed the servants, so he shuts Thereza away.
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A pistol shot at dawn changes everything
Thereza sends word that she leaves for Porto at dawn and begs Simão to stay away.
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A father and a judge decide a young life
The corregedor hears the news in his nightclothes.
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Honor is the real villain of this story
The preface already calls honor false, and the author declares hatred for men made barbarous in its name.
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Love comes in more than one shape
Thereza loves Simão with a fierce, almost religious faith.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Simão Botelho A brave, hot-tempered student of Viseu who turns to study for love of Thereza but cannot bend his pride.
- Thereza de Albuquerque A rich, stubborn heiress who loves Simão faithfully and refuses to marry the cousin her father picks.
- Thadeu de Albuquerque Thereza's father, an old nobleman who hates the Botelho family and wants his daughter shut away to protect his honor.
- Balthazar Coutinho Thereza's cousin from Castro-d'Aire, a landowner who wants her hand and plots against Simão.
- João da Cruz A blunt, strong farrier who owes the corregedor his life and protects Simão with his carbine.
- Marianna João's daughter, a gentle country woman who nurses Simão and gives everything she has, asking nothing in return.
- Domingos Botelho Simão's father, an ugly, stern magistrate and former flutist who serves the law before his family.
- Dona Rita Preciosa Simão's mother, a proud lady of the royal household who misses court life and cannot warm to her second son.
How it ends (spoiler)
Simão is sentenced to ten years of exile in India, and his father wins the right for him to serve it nearby, which Simão refuses. João da Cruz is shot dead at his forge. On the day Simão's ship leaves the Douro, Thereza dies at the convent lookout. Simão dies of fever at sea, and Marianna throws herself into the water after his body.
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What is Doomed Love about?
It follows Simão Botelho and Thereza de Albuquerque, who love each other in Viseu in the early 1800s while their fathers are enemies. A jealous cousin, convents and the law work against them, and a farrier and his daughter stand by Simão.
Is Doomed Love a true story?
Castelo Branco says it grew from a real prison record of a student named Simão Antonio Botelho, sent to India in 1807. He wrote the novel in 1861 and says Simão was his own uncle.
Who is Marianna in Doomed Love?
Marianna is the daughter of the farrier João da Cruz. She nurses Simão, gives him her savings and follows him through prison, always loving him without asking for love in return.
Is Doomed Love easy to read?
The story moves in short chapters with lively dialogue, humorous scenes and a narrator who talks directly to you, so the plot is easy to follow from one scene to the next.
What is the main message of Doomed Love?
The book argues that false honor and family pride can destroy young lives, and that real nobility lies in loyalty, truthfulness and kindness, shown best by humble people like João da Cruz and Marianna.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Castelo Branco, Camilo. Doomed Love. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/doomed-love.
Castelo Branco, C. (2026). Doomed love. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/doomed-love (Original work published 1862)
Castelo Branco, Camilo. Doomed Love. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/doomed-love.
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publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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note = {First published 1862}
}
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