A “PRINCESA” LUDOVIKA CHEGA AO ARRAIAL… - Cenas da chegada de Ludovika e Teodosia ao Tijuco

Princess Ludovika of Castelgandolfo is a character from the universe of the telenovela Xica da Silva, played by the actress, former spy, singer, writer and former politician, Hungarian based in Italy, Ilona Anna Staller, popularly known as Cicciolina, her lady-in-waiting Teodosia is played by Claudia Baroni. Scenes from the telenovela Xica da Silva (1996), broadcast by the defunct Manchete television network, is a work set in the interior of Minas Gerais in Portuguese America during the 1750s. The production, of a semi-fictional nature (but still showing in an unparalleled way the reality and context of Brazil and part of all the Americas of the period) is inspired by the trajectory of Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, a freed black mixed-race Brazilian woman who, living in concubinage with the diamond contractor João Fernandes de Oliveira, became the richest and most influential Brazilian woman of her time throughout the Portuguese Overseas Empire.