The Lusiads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lusiads, credited to Luis Vaz de Camões, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Lusiads, by Luís Vaz de Camões, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. Read by Leni. The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. Modelled after the classic epic tradition, Camões' Lusiads are considered not only the first literary text in Modern Portuguese, but also a national epic of the same level as Vergil's Aeneid. In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton translated Camões' Lusiads, in what he considered "the most pleasing literary labour of his life". (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lusiads
• Author credits: Luis Vaz de Camões
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 9:46:27

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• Portuguese literature
• epic poetry
• Camoens
• Lusiads.

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication and Preface — 19:33
2. 01 - Canto I — 47:22
3. 02 - Canto II — 47:44
4. 03 - Canto III — 1:04:30
5. 04 - Canto IV — 47:48
6. 05 - Canto V — 46:56
7. 06 - Canto VI — 45:52
8. 07 - Canto VII — 40:24
9. 08 - Canto VIII — 44:35
10. 09 - Canto IX — 43:24
11. 10 - Canto X — 1:11:35
12. 11 - Rejected Stanzas — 1:06:49

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