Lino de Albergaria - writer

Books

The Lusiadas
Luís de Camões
Adaptation of Lino de Albergaria
Publishing Paulus

Synopse:
Published in 1572, The Lusíadas is considered the greatest epic poem of the Portuguese language. In it, Camoes tell Portugal’s conquers, the glories of its navigators, the king of ancient times...... The central action is the discovery of the maritime path to India by Vasco da Gama, describing many episodes of Portugal history, which, in Camoes time was a world power due to the exploration, via sea, of new commercial routes. Throughout the narrative, divine Greek-roman mythological interventions are also narrated in the heroes’ actions, in a sequence of bellicose, mythological, historic and symbolic episodes.

The collection Meeting the Literary Classics presents adaptations of the greatest universal juvenile literary classics. The objective is to favor a first contact with such work through an accessible language for young readers, preserving its plots and main characteristics, motivating the taste for reading and deepening knowledge of the classical books and their authors.