The day Camões was born

Authors

  • Carlota Simões Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_84_6

Keywords:

Camões, astronomy, Mario Saa

Abstract

Anyone familiar with the works of Luciano Pereira da Silva knows that Camões not only had a clear and confident knowledge of the astronomy of his time and rigorously used tables of astronomical ephemerides, but also made a point of showing his scientific erudition in his work. After knowing this facet of Camões and reading the third verse of his sonnet ‘O dia em que eu nasci, morra e pereça’, we may deduce that Camões refers to a solar eclipse that actually occurred, allowing us to infer that the poet was born on January 23, 1524, as Mario Saa proposed in 1940.

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Published

2024-12-05

Issue

No. 84 (2024)

Section

Articles

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