José Dinis Fidalgo - Intimidade

Josefa d’Óbidos, enamored of a slave; the painter Baltazar Figueira, a secret agent in the service of the Restorer; Queen Dona Luísa de Gusmão, the ever-vigilant decision-maker; the perfidy and shrewdness of a dwarf involved in the kingdom's government.

A royal bastard whose existence is unknown to anyone; the Marquises of Nisa; a contemporary minister with an ego bigger than the world and his lover, a history professor and writer.

These are some of the many colorful characters that populate Intimidade, the new semi-epistolary novel by José Dinis Fidalgo, which reflects on the shameless Portugal of today, fictionalizing the subtleties and villainies of the events that followed on December 1, 1640.