Fernando Pessoa’s Final Passion José Barreto * Translated by Rijn du Toit English version of the article "A última paixão de Fernando Pessoa", published in Pessoa Plural - A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, 12 (Fall 2017). Abstract It is often stated that Ofélia Queiroz was the only love in the life of Fernando Pessoa. However, in 1935, the year of his death, Pessoa wrote, in several languages, an unusual number of love poems in the first person, including verses conveying intense passion. This led Ángel Crespo to formulate, in 1989, the hypothesis that Pessoa died deeply in love with a mysterious woman, though Crespo did not gather enough plausible information to uncover her identity. This article proposes an identity for the target of Pessoa’s late passion, through the analysis of several of his love poems of 1935 and of some letters, previously unknown, exchanged in that same year between him and Madge Anderson, a British woman who repeatedly visited Portugal from 1929 onwards. Madge was the sister of Eileen, who in turn was Pessoa’s sister-in-law, married to his half-brother João Maria Nogueira Rosa (aka John). Keywords Fernando Pessoa, Love poems, Ángel Crespo, Ofélia Queiroz, Madge Anderson * Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.