The fourth canto contains the episode of the old man on the Restelo, who curses the Argonauts, Prometheus, and Daedalus, and condemns the main characters' lust for power.
The fourth canto contains the episode of the old man on the Restelo, who curses the Argonauts, Prometheus, and Daedalus, and condemns the main characters' lust for power. Faria e Sousa tried to bring the pagan and Christian elements of this poem together by identifying Jupiter with Jesus, Venus with the Virgin Mary, and Bacchus with the devil. The ninth canto describes an orgy on the Isle of Love, while the fifth canto describes Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape of Good Hope, who antagonizes sailors on their way to India. Celebrating the voyages of Vasco da Gama, FTP, name this poem in ten cantos by Luis vas de Camoes, the national epic of Portugal.
The fourth canto contains the episode of the old man on the Restelo, who curses the Argonauts, Prometheus, and Daedalus, and condemns the main characters' lust for power.
The {Lusiads} [or Os {Lusiadas}]