Spanish & Portuguese
Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões was a Portuguese poet, widely regarded as the greatest in the Portuguese language. He served in the Portuguese enterprises in North Africa and the East, losing the sight of one eye in battle at Ceuta, and spent many years abroad in India and Macao before returning to Lisbon.
His epic Os Lusíadas, published in 1572, celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India and the history of the Portuguese people in ten cantos of ottava rima. He is also remembered for his lyric poetry, and died in Lisbon in 1580. This archive holds Sir Richard Francis Burton's English version of the epic, published in 1880.
Major Works (3)
- The Lusiad, or Portugals Historicall Poem — translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe (1655)
- The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India — translated by William Julius Mickle (1776), rev. E. Richmond Hodges (1877)
- The Lusiads — translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880)