Camoëns

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Ca·mões

(kə-moiNsh′) also Ca·mo·ëns (kăm′ō-ənz, kə-mō′-), Luiz Vaz de 1524?-1580.
Portuguese writer best known for Os Lusíadas (1572), an epic describing his nation's rise from obscurity to greatness.
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Camoëns

(ˈkæməʊˌɛns) or

Camões

n
(Biography) Luis Vaz de (lwiʃ vɑʃ ˈdəː). 1524–80, Portuguese epic poet; author of The Lusiads (1572)
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Cam•o•ëns

(ˈkæm oʊˌɛns)

also Ca•mões

(kəˈmɔ̃ɪ̃ʃ)

n.
Luis Vaz de (vɑʒ) 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.
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We have prepared two eclogues, one by the famous poet Garcilasso, the other by the most excellent Camoens, in its own Portuguese tongue, but we have not as yet acted them.
Neri also illuminates EBB's relationship to Petrarch, Dante, and Camoens with regard to their female muses.
Se trata de una extensa probanza de meritos y servicios, rendida en los versos mas galanos de su epoca, la ottava rima, la de Ariosto, Tasso, y Camoens, entre otros.
WE veteran Carolyn Camoens will continue as WE's senior vice president of southeast Asia based in Mumbai.
The poem has to be approached from the right direction, and the proper starting-point is that of the large-scale Renaissance productions, also in ottava rima, by such masters as Ariosto and Tasso and Luis de Camoens. The real problem for the critics may be reduced to simple terms: since the consensus is that /1 itroru.
(6) Balderston's index, for example, cites a talk Borges gave in the Centro de Estudios Brasilenos (Center for Brazilian Studies) in Buenos Aires on June 29, 1972 under the tide "Destino y obra de Camoens" ("Fate and Work of Camoens") as one of the eight citations of Freud.