Vasco da Gama's voyage to India framed as a national epic of Portuguese discovery, with gods and storms. Camões's masterpiece.
Books that mention The Lusiads (3)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis: “some prefer to recite a stanza from the Lusiads, others adopt the recourse of whistling Norma.”
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec: “not with the help of Camoëns's Lusiades through which Paganel thought he was learning Spanish”
In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne: “Yes, my friend, the LUSIADES of the great Camoens, neither more nor less.”