/lit/ - Literature

This was quite a hard choice but i chose this one because it encapsulates the Portuguese spirit the best. It looks at the past with awe, wishes it would still like that in the present and hopes it will be in the future. All that in a 44 poem book, the only released during the man's life and in moment where the country was redefining it's nationality. The only problem with it being that it the strength of the rhyme and language is lost in translation.

Other strong contenders are:
-The Lusiads for defining the portuguese language and making one of the few, if the not the only, true epic poem since the Romans.
-Padre António Vieira's Sermons are a worthy of mention for their argumentative and prose quality although i'm not sure there exists any translation
-The best play for me would be Frei Luís de Sousa for it's classical structure
-A bunch of poets that have no possible translation but i'll name drop -Cesário Verde, Alexandre O'Neil, Bocage