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"O Regicida" by Camilo Castelo Branco is a historical romance written in the mid-19th century. The story revolves around Domingos Leite Pereira, the son of a cutler, who aspires to transcend his humble beginnings in 17th-century Portugal. Faced with pressures from his parents regarding his career choice and the burden of his family's expectations, Domingos yearns for greater accolades, leading him into a tumultuous life intertwined with music, politics, and scandal, highlighting themes of ambition and betrayal. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Domingos Leite, a young man caught between his family's wishes and his aspirations, who dreams of becoming something greater than a cutler. His mother desires that he becomes a friar, while he secretly aspires to be a pharmacist and eventually seeks a position in the royal chapel. The narrative sets the stage for his political involvement during a time of unrest, leading to his entanglement in a conspiracy against the crown, which

Así empieza

Antonio Leite, casado com Maria Pereira, e morador na villa de
Guimarães, em 1634, era o cuteleiro de maior voga em Portugal.

N'aquelle anno, tinham um filho, de nome Domingos, com dezesete annos de
edade.

Quizera o pai ensinar-lhe a arte, que lhe dera fama e dinheiro. A mãe
desejava que o rapaz fosse frade, consoante á vontade de seu irmão fr.
Gaspar de Sancta Thereza, leitor apostolico de moral no convento de S.
Francisco de Lisboa.

Ora o rapaz não queria ser frade nem cuteleiro: aspirava ardentemente um
officio mais prestadio ao genero humano infermiço: queria ser boticario.

Era esperto o moço, não só porque appetecia ser boticario; mas porque
realmente era agudo de intendimento, ladino, sedento de saber tudo e
propenso a correr mundo, tendencia, na verdade, incompativel com a
quietação da almejada botica.

Aos quinze annos, Domingos sabia latim, cursava philosophia de
Aristoteles com um insigne mestre da ordem franciscana, e lia os
cartapacios pharmaceuticos do frade boticario do mesmo convento.

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