Camoëns

[ kam-oh-ens ]

noun

1. Lu·is Vaz de [loo-, eesh, vahzh d, uh], 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.

Camoëns

/ ˈkæməʊˌɛns; kaˈmõiʃ /

noun

1. CamoënsLuis Vaz de15241580MPortugueseWRITING: poet Luis Vaz de (lwiʃ vɑʃ ˈdəː). 1524–80, Portuguese epic poet; author of The Lusiads (1572).

Example Sentences

Her poem entitled The Restoration of Works of Art to Italy was published in 1816, her Modern Greece in 1817, and in 1818 Translations from Camoens and other Poets.

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Not only is it watered by the Dong-nai and Saigon rivers, but it also embraces the delta of the Mekong, at the mouth of which noble stream the Portuguese poet Camoens was ship-wrecked in the year 1556, swimming to the shore with his left hand, while in his right he held above the waters his manuscript copy of the Lusiad.

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"Your selection gives me a high idea of your mental qualities," said I, "but tell me, why do you give such a preference to Camoens and all these Portuguese authors?"

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"You are right; but how can you like Camoens so much if you do not know Portuguese?"

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Of similar interest were the sets of first editions of Petrarca, Cervantes, Camoens—leaves invaluable to the thinker on human civilisation.

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