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Article: Buscan borrar estigma sobre Juana la Loca.(Cultura)

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May 27, 2005
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Byline: Erika P. Bucio

Asegura Gioconda Belli en 'El pergamino de la seducción' que la aristócrata no enfermó de locura, sino de pasión

Aunque le apodaban Juana la Loca, Juana de Castilla (1479-1555) no enfermó de locura. Su rebeldía contra los convencionalismos de la época alimentó la leyenda de su desequilibrio mental y la condenó a morir confinada en el Palacio de Tordesillas después de 46 años de encierro.

Convencida de que Juana ha sido mal entendida y con frecuencia tratada desde una perspectiva masculina, la escritora nicaragüense Gioconda Belli (Managua, 1948) arroja nueva luz sobre el personaje histórico en su novela El ...

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