Inês de Castro: yesterday, today and always

On the fateful January 7, 1355, In & ecirc;s de Castro died, a historical character who remains alive to this day. From the few lines dedicated to her in the Chronicles of Fern & atilde;o Lopes, the figure of the Galician lives in each of the countless reinterpretations that the Inesian myth has been seen over time, in registers that are sometimes paraphrasic, but also stylized or parodic. As Vasco Pereira da Costa very well pointed out, "the story [of Pedro and In & ecirc;s] is more than told, the poets wrote it lyrically, the historians narrated it, the prose writers prose it, the playwrights theatricalized it. And after working so hard, another always came up (...). Always another, I don't say well, because, after all, nothing changed the destiny of the people who made this story: it is known that any author who takes it up again, resurrecting time and lives (...) will be forced in the end (... ) to silence time." This intervention aims to explore the historical novel In & ecirc;s de Castro: spy, lover, queen of Portugal, by Isabel Stilwell (2021), so that we can trace a path of the mythical-historical character, or better, understand how In & ecirc;s de Castro was or no other always emerges, considering above all the historical and feminine perspectives.