Download or read book The Madness of Queen Maria written by Jenifer Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her long-awaited birth in 1734 in the most opulent city in Europe, to her death in 1816 in much humbler surroundings in Brazil, this biography tells of a woman whose misfortune was to inherit the throne at a turning point in European history.