Epic poem · 1880

The Lusiads

Os Lusíadas

by Luís de Camões

Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880)

Camões's national epic of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India and the story of Portugal, in ten cantos of ottava rima, rendered into English by Sir Richard Francis Burton.

Contents · 10 parts

• Canto Iabout 850 lines
• Canto IIabout 900 lines
• Canto IIIabout 1140 lines
• Canto IVabout 830 lines
• Canto Vabout 800 lines
• Canto VIabout 790 lines
• Canto VIIabout 700 lines
• Canto VIIIabout 790 lines
• Canto IXabout 760 lines
• Canto Xabout 1260 lines

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