The Lusiads by Luis De Camoes

The Lusiads by Luis De Camoes

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 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. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new 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	9780192801517
ISBN 10	0192801511
Title	The Lusiads
Author	Luis De Camoes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2001-04-01
Number of pages	286
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