Lusï¿½ads

Name: Lusï¿½ads
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ISBN: 9780192801517

ISBN-10: 0192801511

ISBN-13: 9780192801517

Edition: 2001

Authors: Luï¿½s Vaz de Camï¿½es, Landeg White

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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…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction


Translator's Note


Select Bibliography


Chronology of Camoes


Maps


The Lusiads


Canto 1


Canto 2


Canto 3


Canto 4


Canto 5


Canto 6


Canto 7


Canto 8


Canto 9


Canto 10


Explanatory Notes