The Lusiads
$29.41
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2007
Summary
First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal’s voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation.
At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama’s pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes’s narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem’s twin symbols are the Cro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440263 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140440267 |
| Author: | William Atkinson, Luis Vaz de Camões |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
William Atkinson
Luiz Camoens, 1524-1580, was a Portuguese poet born in Lisbon. He traveled 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.
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