More than Muses

Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda

Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda (1595?-1644)

An image from a work by Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda
Image from the 1634 printing of Lacerda's Soledades de Buçaco

Miscellaneous Works by Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda

Gallery

Annotated Bibliography

Álvarez-Cifuentes, Pedro. "El ‘infelice successo’ de Cristina de Noruega en la Hespaña libertada de Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda." Impossibilia: Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios, vol. 21, 2021, p. 87–111.

This article discusses the second half of Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda’s poem La Hespaña Libertada which was published after her death. The second half of this poem is about the Princess Cristina and her trip to the Iberian Peninsula. Excerpts of her poetry are interspersed with summaries of events in the poem. A discussion of the events of the time in Spain is included as well as an analysis Lacerda’s purpose for including the Nordic Princess Cristina in this nationalistic work. This article also contains a brief life sketch of Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda. (Annotation by Silke Schnebly)

Posted

1 October 2021

Last Updated

17 September 2025