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Maarten Janssen, 2014-
Author(s) | Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro |
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Addressee(s) | D. Leonor de Almeida Lorena e Lencastre |
In English | Extortion letter from Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, under the alias of António Chuço, to Fernando António de Almeida, a land owner. The authors threatens the addressee with violence unless she pays a sum of money to a prisoner in Lisbon. The addressee was no less than the Marquise of Alorna, a famous literary author. In the first quarter of the 19th century, extortion letters became a very typical practice. Authors threatened rich addressees with all sorts of ruinous events in the case they didn't hand in a certain amount of money. The frequentness of this practice was possible also because of the political and social turmoil associated with these first years of Liberalism. |
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