Portuguese epic, voyage, empire, providence, and literary memory, beginning with The Lusiad and its classical-Christian horizon.
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The Lusiad — Luís de Camões — The Lusiad (Os Lusíadas) by Luís de Camões (1572) — Portugal's national epic, recounting Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in ten cantos of classical verse, translated by William Julius Mickle (1776), the most celebrated English rendering.