death_date nationality birth_date period genre alma_mater death_place influenced influences image name occupation caption birth_place relatives movement notableworks article_title birth_name
20 june 1580 10 june -lrb- aged 55-56 -rrb- portuguese c. 1524-1525 portuguese renaissance epic poetry university of coimbra lisbon , kingdom of portugal manuel , fernando pessoa , borges , ezra pound , bento du teixeira , santa rita durão , j. slauerhoff bocage , almeida garrett , herman melville homer ludovico ariosto , francisco sá de miranda , virgil , dante alighieri , petrarch , camões , por fernão gomes.jpg luís de camões poet portrait 1577 by fernão gomes , '' c '' . lisbon , constância -lrb- ? -rrb- or alenquer -lrb- ? -rrb- -lrb- , kingdom of portugal ? -rrb- , coimbra -lrb- ? -rrb- camões family classicism '' the lusiads '' luís de camões
 luís vaz de camões
luís de camões

luís vaz de camões -lrb- ; sometimes rendered in english as camoens or camoëns -lrb- e.g. by byron in `` english bards and scotch reviewers '' -rrb- , ; c. 1524 or 1525 -- -rrb- , is considered portugal 's and the portuguese language 's greatest poet .
his mastery of verse has been compared to that of shakespeare , vondel , homer , virgil and dante .
he wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work `` os lusíadas '' -lrb- `` the lusiads '' -rrb- .
his collection of poetry `` the parnasum of luís de camões '' was lost in his lifetime .
the influence of his masterpiece `` os lusíadas '' is so profound that portuguese is called the `` language of camões '' .
