LUSIAD

LUSIAD
   or LUSIADES
   a poem of Camoëns in ten cantos, in celebration of the discoveries of the Portuguese in the East Indies, and in which Vasco da Gama is the principal figure; it is a genuine national epic, in which the poet passes in review all the celebrated exploits and feats that glorify the history of Portugal.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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