The exhibition «Camões: vida, obra y pervivencia en la cultura hispánica» invites you to discover a unique heritage, as well as the culture and richness of the Portuguese people, through a fantastic and unrepeatable selection that seeks to honour the memory of one of the greatest writers of world literature.
The exhibition is structured in four main sections.
The first covers the Background and the historical and literary context of Portugal.
The second aims to show the Cultural Environment of Luis de Camões, that is, an overview of the classical works and authors, from the Iberian Peninsula and Italy, who in one way or another decisively shaped the literary work of Camões, with particular attention to lyric poetry, theatre and, above all, epic poetry.
The third section covers the Literary Universe of Camões, where it will be possible to find a select display of the works of Camões preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de España, from the first editions of Os Lusíadas (1572), through the Castilian translations of this epic work, the theatre and the cancionero poetry, to the annotated edition by Manuel de Faria y Sousa published in the city of Madrid in 1639, which is considered a milestone in the process of Camões's canonisation within Castilian literature.
Finally, the fourth section focuses on the Projection of Luís de Camões in Hispanic Culture, which brings together a selection of works from the Hispanic literary world in order to illustrate the main milestones that marked studies on Camões in Spain, with works by authors such as Rosalía de Castro, Francisco Villaespesa and Jorge Luis Borges. The exhibition closes this literary journey with the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, whose book Un andar solitario entre la gente took its title from a sonnet by Camões.
The exhibition «Camões: Vida, obra y pervivencia en la cultura hispánica» will allow the public to immerse themselves in Portuguese culture, which is sometimes so little known despite our proximity. We hope that this exhibition will help build bridges between these two sister countries. In this way, we close the celebrations held throughout the world in honour of one of the greatest figures of Lusitanian letters.
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