![]() ![]() This was an interesting moment in history. The Cantino planisphere shows the world known to Europeans in 1502. Portugal’s national day, Portugal Day, commemorates de Camões’ death on June 10, 1580. Os Lusíadas is often compared to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or Virgil’s Aeneid. De Camões wrote the poem while in exile on the Chinese island of Macau. Vasco de Gama’s journey launched the Portuguese Empire and the European Age of Discovery. ![]() This translation was made by William Julius Mickle in 1776. What glorious empire crowned their toils at last What wars they waged, what seas, what dangers past, With prowess more than human forced their way Through Seas where sail was never spread before,īeyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast,Īnd waves her woods above the watery waste, It’s about the opening of the sea route to India by the great Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama in the 15th century (1497 – 1499).Īrms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon’s shore, This was in the time when ships were not much bigger than speedboats are today.ĭe Camões wrote Portugal’s national epic poem Os Lusíadas in 1572. 1524 – 1580) traveled all the way from Portugal to China and back. The title page of a first edition of ‘Os Lusíadas’ (1572)ĭe Camões (c. ![]()
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