Luís de Camões

Monument do Luís de Camões, Lisbon

Luís Vaz de Camões (sometimes rendered in English as Camoens) (1524 – June 10, 1580) is generally considered Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery of his art is only comparable in greatness to Virgil, Dante or Shakespeare. He penned dozens of sonnets and other poems, but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Events March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... Events March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... For other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads) is considered one of the finest and most important works in Portuguese literature. ...

His life remains a mistery, for few remaining documents of the time refer directly to him. He was suposedly born in Lisbon, although Coimbra is also a possibility, around 1524, son to Simão Vaz de Camões and Anna de Sá e Macedo, a family from the northern portugesese region of Chaves. Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ... Coimbra is a city and the capital of the district of Coimbra in Portugal. ... Events March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. ... Photo of Chaves taken by J.B. Cesar Chaves, Portugal, is the second most populous city in the district of Vila Real, after the district capital of the same name. ...

He probably studied Humanities in Coimbra, where his uncle D. Bento de Camões was a priest at the renowned Monastery of Santa Cruz, although no document registers Camões' permanence there (he does refer to Coimbra in a poem). The refined culture he displays in his writings had to be acquired somewhere, so Portugal's only university of the time was the likeliest place.

When he was very young, legend says, he fell in love with a lady of the court. The lady had also caught the king's eye, however, and so Camões was sent into exile. The lady died of a broken heart, and Camões thought so much of her that he never married.

After her death, he went to fight the Moors in Morocco, and in a battle an arrow put out one of his eyes. A depiction of an ancient moor Moors is used in this article to describe the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. Origins of the Name The name derives from the ancient...

He hoped to get some office when he returned to court, but none were given to him. Instead, he sailed for Goa in the East Indies, saying, as he left Portugal: "Ungrateful country, thou shall not possess my bones." Goa (गोवा) is Indias smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. ... The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and South-East Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and...

In Goa he made the Portuguese soldiers angry with a satirical poem and he was banished to Macao, where he was given an office with salary enough for his support. While living there, he wrote Os Lusíadas, named from the fabled hero Lusus, who is said to have come with Ulysses to what is now Portugal and called it Lusitania. The poem tells about Vasco da Gama and other Portuguese heroes who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and opened a new route to the Indies. Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads) is considered one of the finest and most important works in Portuguese literature. ... In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. ... Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend In many myths and folk tales, a hero is a man or woman (the latter often called a heroine), traditionally the protagonist of a story, legend or saga, commonly possessed of abilities or character far greater than that of a typical person, which... In the Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) of Luís de Camões (printed 1572), the literary work that was created to form a national epic for Portugal, Lusus was progenitor of his tribe (the Lusiads) and founder of Lusitania, the Roman province that roughly corresponded to modern Portugal. ... The name Ulysses can mean: The Roman equivalent of Odysseus A 1922 novel by James Joyce: Ulysses (novel) A 1967 movie based on the novel, Ulysses (movie) A solar probe: Ulysses (spacecraft) A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson A anime television program produced by DiC Entertainment: Ulysses 31 An indie... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Estremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama (c. ... The Cape of Good Hope headland seen from the north 1888 Map of the Cape of Good Hope Triangular Postage Stamp The Cape of Good Hope is a headland in South Africa, near Cape Town, traditionally — and incorrectly — regarded as marking the turning point between the Atlantic Ocean and the...

Eventually, Camões was recalled from exile and he set sail for home. However, he was shipwrecked, and was only saved by floating on a board.

He went to Goa again and was arrested for debt and kept in prison for eight years, when he was allowed to go to Lisbon in 1569. Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ...

For a time, the king gave him a small pension, but when the king died the pension ended and Camões lived in poverty, cared for by a servant who had followed him from India, and who begged in the streets by night to get enough for them to eat.

He finally died in Lisbon at the age of 56.

Work

Camões wrote several poetries and texts (including some in Castilian), the most known being the epic The Lusiads (1572). This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads) is considered one of the finest and most important works in Portuguese literature. ... Events January 16 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. ...

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In addition, three letters that he wrote are known to have survived.

External links

• http://www.poetry-portal.com/poets15.html