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To better understand Os Lusíadas and, above all, for young people at school to gain the pleasure of learning Camões’s poetry, it can be very useful to know his life as far as it became known without any room for doubt, but also what is supposed to have happened based on clear signs that different biographers found in their research. The most recent biography of Luís de Camões, published a year and a half ago, portrays the man behind the myth, in a five-year work by Isabel Rio Novo, with whom Paulo Baldaia talks to in this Expresso da Manhã
We do not know for sure the day, month and year in which Luís de Camões was born, nor even the place where it happened. But it is known that he died in poverty on June 10, 1580, eight years after Os Lusíadas were published for the first time.
Because today is Sunday, we take a look at the cover theme of the Expresso magazine, which has an interview by Luciana Leiderfarb with José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes, general commissioner of the Commemorations of the V Centenary of the Birth of Luís de Camões, and in which the writer and author of the most recent biography of Camões, Isabel Rio Novo, traces the line of days in the poet’s life up to the moment in which he wrote his best-known work.
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