The Lusiads by Luis De Camoes
First published in 1572, this is an epic poem of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery. At the centre of the poem 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 Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world unites 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. This edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes.
Landeg White is the translator of The Lus�ads of Lu�s Vaz de Cam�es (Oxford World's Classics), which won the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for translation in 1998. A prolific poet and scholar, he teaches English and American studies at Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192831910 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192831917 |
| Titel | The Lusiads |
| Autor | Luis De Camoes |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Oxford University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1998-02-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 286 |
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