Talk:Luís de Camões

message: Shouldn't this page be renamed? Either we use the native form (Luís de Camões) or the english transliteration (Luis de Camoes). Zubras 01:14, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I think the article has anti-Portuguese bias, he died in poverty because of the life that he had, he wasted all the money he recived from the king in CRAP and women. This article needs a review and investigation. -Pedro 21:13, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: In the section "Lyric Poetry" this paragraph appears to contain personal opinions or original research. 
His ten (or more, depending on the source—the authority on the matter, however, has been Jorge de Sena) Canções (Songs) are a very impressive psychological and emotional dissection through poetic rhetoric, the complete dramatization of the inner self and one's own consciousness—qualities most often thought of as pertaining originarily to Shakespeare (Bloom) or Donne (Eliot)—making Camões a kind of precursor of that line of poetry which would culminate in William Wordsworth, even more so than, say, Petrarch or Auzias March. There are still many others of his lyric works that could be brought to the table; Camões was, despite later Parnassian attacks, extremely well-versed in the language and skilled with an impressive array of poetic forms.
These statements need good cites. Wikipedia:Attribution. -- Writtenonsand 12:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cites please. Avoid (appearance of) personal opinion or original research. 

message: Frequently is refered that Camoes was borned in Alequer.
This is based in a Poem that was written by him:
http://www.sonetos.com.br/sonetos.php?n=415 
But, by reading carefully this poem, we see that indeed this poem was written by Camoes but in a way that it is not him who is saying, but someone that died with less than 25 years old. So the poem is being miss understood. This problem is being presented by Prof. Jose Hermano Saraiva in his program "A Alma e a Gente" RTPI http://www.rtp.pt/rtpi/images/site/emissao/
Joao Coutinho 1Mar2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.178.143.160 (talk) 22:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camoes borned in Alenquer??? 

message: This entire article appears to be a mixture of auto-translate from an Iberian language and text written by a non-native English-speaker.  For one example, to a native speaker of English the statement "His recollection of poetry ... was lost" means "He found himself unable to remember poetry," which is not at all what is meant.  The use of "on" versus "in" is another example.  
This article would benefit from a content-neutral rework by a native English speaker.  72.94.97.55 (talk) 01:29, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idomatic English 

message: Bfpage |leave a message  15:15, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK congratulations for you today

message: We show the date in both Julian (10 June) and Gregorian (20 June) calendars. One question: WHY? The Gregorian calendar came into existence in 1582 (15 October, to be exact), and it was NOT retrospective. That means that any dates occurring on or before 4 October 1582 Julian (the day immediately preceding 15 October 1582 Gregorian) should not be converted into what their Gregorian equivalents would have been if the Gregorian calendar had been instituted earlier than it was - which it wasn't.  
Looking for clues on our Portuguese WP page, I found this Note a:
* .. In either case, if June 10th refers to the Julian calendar then in force, in the Gregorian calendar. The current one corresponds to June 20, the day on which the poet's death anniversary should be celebrated and not June 10... (Mário Saa, As Memórias Astrológicas de Camões , Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, Lisbon, 1940, pgs. 313 -317)
Well, with all due respect to the source, that is just wrong-headed. He died on 10 June. The only uncertainty is the year, but in any event it was before 1582. --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 23:00, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of death

message: Believe that due to his influence and the non existance of anyone with the same name it could be a possibility to move the page to simply Camões, since that is how he is still known. 2001:8A0:67F3:4C00:207A:F663:137E:42AF (talk) 23:12, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Camões"