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Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns (/ ˈ k æ m oʊ ə n z / KAM-oh-ənz), is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.
Luís de Camões (born c. 1524/25, Lisbon, Portugal—died June 10, 1580, Lisbon) was Portugal’s great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572; The Lusiads ), which describes Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route to India. Camões had a permanent and unparalleled impact on Portuguese and Brazilian literature alike ...
Os Lusíadas (Portuguese pronunciation: [uʒ luˈzi.ɐðɐʃ]), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões (c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572.
For the full article, see Luís de Camões . Luís de Camões, (born c. 1524/25, Lisbon—died June 10, 1580, Lisbon), Portuguese poet. A member of the impoverished aristocracy, he may have spent about 17 years in India. His masterpiece, the epic The Lusiads (1572), extols glorious deeds in Portuguese history as it recounts Vasco da Gama ’s ...
Luís de Camões (b. 1524?–d. 1579/1580) is the first great Western poet to have lived in Africa and Asia and is now widely considered to be a preeminent literary symbol of the beginnings of the globalized world. Often called the “Prince of Poets” in Renaissance Iberia, he wrote almost exclusively in Portuguese.
May 23, 2018 · The Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camoëns (1524-1580), or Camões, is best known for "The Lusiads," which is among the best modern epics. He was a lyricist of rare perfection and is considered the greatest poet of the Portuguese language. Luis de Camoëns was the son of Simão Vaz, from Coimbra, and Ana de Sá e Macedo.
Camões, Luíz Vaz deca. 1524–1580Portuguese poet. T he Portuguese poet Luíz Vaz de Camões is best known as the author of The Lusiads, an epic* glorifying his homeland. Born in Lisbon to a family of lower nobility, Camões served as a soldier in North Africa, where he lost an eye.
