Os Lusiadas de Luis de Camões

Creator

Camões, Luís de

Place

Impressos em Lisboa

Publisher

em casa de Antonio Go[n]çaluez impressor

Date

1572

Notes

Signatures: pi² A-Y⁸ Z¹°

This is the so-called E edition. Controversy exists over whether it really was printed in 1572 or at a much later date as a pirated edition. It gets its name from the seventh line of the first stanza which begins with the word "Entre". On the title page, the pelican faces toward the reader's right. Another edition of the same year, the so-called Ee edition, begins the seventh line of the first stanza "E entre". On the title page, the pelican faces the reader's left

Discusses Vasco da Gama's 1st voyage to India and mentions Mexico and Brazil

In verse

Title within border