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The Lusiads

Luis De Camoes

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 580 pages

The Lusiads by Luís de Camões is a Portuguese Renaissance epic poem in ten cantos. It follows Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India while weaving in Portuguese history and classical mythology. It is worth hearing as a landmark of European epic poetry and Portugal's national epic.

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

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. To My Master Camões
  4. Preface
  5. The Rejected Stanzas
  6. Endnotes

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