The Regicide’s Daughter: A Historical Romance — New English Translation

Published in Lisbon in 1875, Camilo Castelo Branco's The Regicide's Daughter is a historical romance of vengeance, inherited disgrace, political violence, and >Angela, the daughter of Domingos Leite Pereira, grows up under the shadow of a father condemned as a regicide and a mother marked by scandal, exile, and war. Around her, the old wounds of the Restoration era remain alive: a grandfather demands justice for his executed son; a wealthy New Christian attempts to repair a tragedy he believes he helped set in motion; and Maria Isabel, separated from >Camilo combines family tragedy with corrosive satire of royal power, social hypocrisy, inherited honor, religious persecution, and the machinery of public judgment. The result is a novel in which revenge is only the beginning of the moral reckoning, and in which the final question is whether love can resist the >This edition presents the complete novel in modern, readable English while preserving its historical register, authorial irony, letters, documentary passages, and the unusual chapter numbering of the 1875 printing.