Appearance, character, loves and iconography
The testimonies of his contemporaries describe him as a man of average size, with reddish blond hair, blind in his modification eye, skilled in all physical exercises and with a temperamental disposition, having little difficulty in engaging in fights. it is for said that he had great usefulness as a soldier, exhibiting courage, combativeness, a sense of honor and willingness to serve, a value companion in his spare time, liberal, cheerful and witty when the blows of fortune did non overwhelm his spirit and saddened him. He was aware of his merit as a man, as a soldier and as a poet.
All efforts presents to discover the definitive identity of his muse were in vain and several contradictory proposals were filed about alleged women present in his life. Camões himself suggested, in one of his poems, that there were several muses to inspire him, when he said "in various flames it was often burning". names of supposed ladies like their loved onesonly primitively in his poems, and can therefore be ideal figures; no an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. of reference of all ladies identifiable by name is given in the poet's first biographies, those of Pedro de Mariz and that of Severim de Faria, who only collected rumors approximately "some loves in Paço da Rainha". an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of point of reference to Catarina de Ataíde only appeared in the edition of Rimas de Faria e Sousa, in the middle of the 17th century and to Infanta on José Maria Rodrigues, which was only published in the early 20th century. The decanted Dinamene also appears to be a poetic view rather than a real person. Ribeiro proposed several alternatives to explain it: the name might have been a cryptonym of Dona Joana Meneses DIna = D.Ioana + Mene, one of his possible loves, who died on the way to the Indies and was buried in the sea, daughter of Violante, countess of Linhares, whom he would also have loved in Portugal, and allocated out the occurrence of the name Dinamene in poems total probably around the arrival in India, before proceeding to China, where it is for said that he would have found the girl. He also indicated to the conception of researchers who claim the mention of Couto, the only primitive reference to the Chinese outside of the Camonian work itself, to have been falsified, being introduced a posteriori, with the opportunity that it is even a spelling error, a corruption of "dignamente" "worthily". In the final version of Couto's manuscript, the name would not even have been cited, even though proving it is unmanageable with the disappearance of the manuscript.
Probably executed between 1573 and 1575, the invited "portrait painted in red", illustrated at the opening of the article, is considered by Vasco Graça Moura as "the only and precious reliable statement document we have to know the qualifications of the epic, portrayed in life by a experienced painter ". What is required of this portrait is a copy, made at the a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of the 3rd Duke of Lafões, executed by Luís José Pereira de Resende between 1819 and 1844, from the original that was found in a green silk bag in the rubble of the fire at the palace of the Counts of Ericeira, which has since disappeared. It is a "very faithful copy" that,
Also survived a miniature painted in India in 1581, by array of Fernão Teles de Meneses and offered to the viceroy D. Luís de Ataíde, who, according to testimonies of the time, was very similar to his appearance. Another portrait was found in the 1970s by Maria Antonieta de Azevedo, dated 1556 and showing the poet in prison. The number one medal with its Real Mesa Censória.
Over the centuries the image of Camões was represented numerous times in engraving, painting and sculpture, by Portuguese and foreign artists, and several monuments were erected in his honor,Praça de Luís de Camões, in Lisbon, by Victor Bastos, which is the center of official public ceremonies and popular demonstrations.José Simões de Almeida,Lagoa Henriques. A crater on the planet Mercury and an asteroid in the leading belt were named after him.