The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões is one of the most important and most representative literary works ever written in Portuguese.  If English is the language of Shakespeare, French the language of Molière and Italian the language of Dante, Portuguese is the language of Camões. More than thousand verses compose what literary critics call “the Portuguese Iliad”. What makes this epic poem so special?  … Continue reading Portuguese literature: #1 The Lusiads by Camoes