The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

Luís de Camões

• Poetry
• Book language: English
• 470 pages

The Lusiad is Luís de Camões's Renaissance epic poem celebrating Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India and Portugal's age of discovery. Blending history, adventure, and classical mythology, it reflects on courage, fate, and national pride. It is worth listening to for its sweeping poetic vision of exploration.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.