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"Os Lusitanians" Author: [Portuguese] Luis de Camões Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House Original title: Os Lusíadas
"Os Lusitanians" Author: [Portuguese] Luis de Camões Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House Original title: Os Lusíadas
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Introduction · · · · · ·
※ The complete and revised hardcover translation of the Portuguese national epic, the only treasure book of the Age of Discovery!
※ Jointly published by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, by a team of senior literary appreciation experts and an authoritative Portuguese translator, it will take you to experience the maritime events of the Age of Exploration and take you on a magnificent and unpredictable magical journey that combines Western religions, myths, and epics!
※ A book highly praised by literary masters around the world - recommended by Cervantes, Montesquieu, Chateaubriand, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacques Barzun, Saramago, Wordsworth, Borges and others!
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"Longevity of the Lusitanians" is a classic epic poem by Camões, the "spiritual father of Portugal". Through the description of the navigator Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, it praises the magnificent history of Portugal and the Portuguese people's fortitude, heroism and bravery.
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He wrote the Cantos, the honors, the shipwrecks, the awakening of the people in the Cantos de Lusitaniens. He is a pure poetic genius, the greatest poet in our (Portuguese) literature, Camões, no matter how much it pains Pessoa, who claims to be a greater poet than Camões, to say this. Nothing suits me, and I cannot learn anything, except the simplest examples that Camões provided for me. His pure humanity, such as the proud humility, set an example for me.
——Jose Saramago
The Portuguese sailed on the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the southernmost tip of Africa. They saw a vast ocean that brought them to the East Indies. Camões wrote poems about their adventures on the sea and the discovery of Mozambique, Malin and Calicut. In his poems, one can feel the charm of the Odyssey and the magnificence of the Aeneid.
—Montesquieu
Time has worn away those swords that have been baptized by battle without regret. You returned to your beloved homeland in poverty. A great man of your generation, I hope to spend the rest of your life in its arms. In that mysterious desert, the "flower of Portugal" has long since withered and died; and the fierce Spaniards are far from giving in, coveting its open edge. I want to know, when you finally returned to this coast, did you have a premonition in your humble heart that the East and the West, the armor and the battle flags, all these forgotten flames (completely unconstrained by the changes of the world), would be passed on through your "Aeneid".
——Jorge Luis Borges
About the Author · · · · · ·
Luís de Camões is the national poet of Portugal and one of the greatest poets of the 16th century and the Renaissance. He was born in Lisbon in 1524 to a poor noble family. He received a humanities education at the University of Cobraín. He became a soldier and participated in Portugal's maritime cause. He lost his right eye in the war and then spent 17 years in the Eastern colonies. After returning to Lisbon, he died in poverty in 1580.
Camões is the greatest Portuguese poet and one of the symbols of the Age of Exploration. He wrote epic poems, sonnets and plays, which profoundly shaped the Portuguese language, nation and identity, and is recognized as the spiritual father of Portugal.
>>>About the translator
Zhang Weimin, born in 1951, is from Beijing. He works at the Oriental Museum of the Oriental Foundation of Portugal. Before going abroad, he worked at the Foreign Language Bureau. He has won scholarships from the Gubenjiang Foundation and the Oriental Foundation, and the annual translation award from the Portuguese Language Society (1986). His translations include "Selected Poems of Camões" (co-authored), "Selected Poems of Pessoa", "100 Sonnets of Camões", "Moral Letters", etc. He participated in the compilation of the "Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary".
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