The Lusiads

by Luis Vaz de Camoes

Overview

At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-8. Camoes was the first European artist to cross the equator, and his narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India, and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, its celebration of a turning-point in mankind's knowledge of the world uniting the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision. Winner of the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for translation 1998

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420979589
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	12/11/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Luiz Vaz de Camoes (1524-1580) was a Portuguese poet born in Lisbon. He travelled to the Red Sea, Persia and Mozambique and spent some years in Goa, India. After his return to Lisbon in 1572, he published 'The Lusiads' recalling the voyages of Vasco da Gama - a work that became the national epic of Portugal.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Translator's Note	xxi
	Select Bibliography	xxiii
	Chronology of Camoes	xxv
	Maps	xxvii
	The Lusiads	1
	Canto 1	3
	Canto 2	25
	Canto 3	48
	Canto 4	77
	Canto 5	98
	Canto 6	119
	Canto 7	139
	Canto 8	157
	Canto 9	177
	Canto 10	197
	Explanatory Notes	229