The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões

The Lusiads

Luís Vaz de Camões with Eduardo Lourenço (Contributor), Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

303 pages first pub 1572 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging slow-paced
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 How many words does it take to tell of a whole country that discovers a whole new world? Camões writes each and every one of them. There are 10 cantos, 1102 stanzas and 8816 verses that erect “The Lusiads”, published in 1572 and that narrate the ...

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