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Bilingual and illustrated edition with verses written by great poets who were born or lived in Lisbon, Portugal's iconic capital city. The globally celebrated Luis de Camoes and Fernando Pessoa, along with the latter's heteronyms, are joined in this collection by three other poets widely praised within the Portuguese speaking world: Cesario Verde, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, and Florbela Espanca. With translations by Martin D'Evelin and Martin Earl, illustrations by Andre Carrilho, and a foreword by Claudia Pazos-Alonso.

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Message is one of the greatest poems in the whole of Portuguese literature. It was also Fernando Pessoa's only book written in Portuguese to be published during his lifetime. At the time of its release, in October of 1934 (just over a year before the author's death), Europe of the Enlightenment and freedom was succumbing to the advance of modern dictatorships, the escalation of expansionary nationalisms and a brand of imperialism based on atheistic materialism which, half a decade later, would trigger the Second World War. It is out of this atmosphere of general European decline, and with unwavering focus on his own country in particular, that Pessoa orchestrates his Message: a telling of the great events and protagonists behind the genesis of Portugal, of the golden age of maritime discovery and of subsequent national entropy, all of it predictive and flowing towards the future construction of a new and different empire: the Fifth Empire, which, in the author's vision, would be a m

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