The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India by Camões  1572 Part 2
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2015-12-24

Portuguese author Luís Vaz de Camões and the epic of the Lusiads. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. It was published in 1572. This translation is by  Sir Richard Burton, 1821-1890. It was translated earlier by William Mickle 1735-1788.

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The Lusiad tells the story of the voyage of Vasco da Gama. The sailors of Prince Henry of Portugal, commander of the Portuguese forces in Africa, had passed Cape Nam and discovered the Cape of Storms, which the prince renamed the Cape of Good Hope. His successor Emmanuel, determined to carry out the work of his predecessor by sending out da Gama to undertake the discovery of the southern passage to India. The Portuguese were generally hostile to the undertaking, but da Gama, his brother, and his friend Coello gathered a company, part of which consisted of malefactors whose sentence of death was reversed on condition that they undertake the voyage, and reached India.