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The Lusiad
Luís Vaz de Camões
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The Lusiads is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. Modeled after the classic epic tradition, Camões' Lusiads are considered not only the first literary text in Modern Portuguese, but also a national epic of the same level as Vergil's Aeneid. In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton translated Camões' Lusiads, in what he considered "the most pleasing literary labor of his life".
The Lusiads is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. Modeled after the classic epic tradition, Camões' Lusiads are considered not only the first literary text in Modern Portuguese, but also a national epic of the same level as Vergil's Aeneid. In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton translated Camões' Lusiads, in what he considered "the most pleasing literary labor of his life".
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Community Reviews
It always surprises me to realize just how large a world my ignorance of world literature encompasses. Case in point, I made it through college without even once hearing about the Portuguese epic poem, The Lusiads.
It's a damn shame, because it's a fantastic poem, making me yearn to reread The Iliad,
Tenho pena de quem não fala português e não pode ler esta obra na sua máxima glória. Através de dez cantos não existe uma única falha que macule a perfeição da composição, que tão influente foi na cultura portuguesa. Às vezes passa desapercebido o grau do impacto dos Lusíadas, que tirou a lenda dos
Five stars ain't enough, maybe six will suffice.
Only those who read Portuguese can fully appreciate the vastness and full depth of this poetic work.
Of course, The Lusiads are the Portuguese people, and the Camões masterpiece is about the epic of the Discoveries; about men and women, Kings and Q
"Ésta, la tierra que buscáis, es cierta
de la India verdadera, que aparece,
y si más no queréis, cerrad la puerta
al trabajo que todo aquí fenece.
A Gama luego el alegría despierta
esta certinidad y allí agradece
arrodillado, con un pío celo,
la grande alta merced a Dios del Cielo."
Fue una gran experiencia
Lusitania was the Roman name for Portugal – hundreds of years before it was the name of an ill-fated 20th-century ocean liner – and it is from that Roman name that Luís Vaz de Camões takes the name for his 1572 work, The Lusiads. Os Lusíadas, as The Lusiads is called in the original Portuguese, is t