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The Lusiads / Luis Vaz de Camoens ; translated by William C. Atkinson.
LIBRA PQ9199.A2 A7 1952
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- The Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Lusíadas. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Portuguese poetry--Translations into English.
- Portuguese poetry.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages : map ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1952.
- Summary:
- An explorer himself, Camoens took Virgil's Aeneid as his example, basing his narrative around the heroic figure of Vasco da Gama and the story of his voyage to India.
- Notes:
- "The present translation is believed to be the first ever made into English prose."--Page 32.
- ISBN:
- 0140440267
- 9780140440263
- OCLC:
- 13469820
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