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Luis de Camoens was a Portuguese poet. He was born in 1524 or 1525 at Lisbon and died in 1579. Disappointed in love, he became a soldier, and served in the fleet which the Portuguese sent against Morocco, losing his right eye in a naval engagement before Ceuta. An affray into which he was drawn was the cause of his embarking in 1553 for India. He landed at Goa, but, being unfavourably impressed with the life led by the ruling Portuguese there, wrote a satire which caused his banishment to Macao in 1556.
Here, however, he was appointed to an honourable position as administrator of the property of' absentee and deceased Portuguese, and here, too, in what were the quietest and most prosperous years of his life, he wrote the earlier cantos of his great poem, the Lusiads. Returning to Goa in 1561, he was shipwrecked and lost all his property except his precious manuscript. After much misfortune Camoens in 1570 arrived once more in his native land, poor and without influence, as he had left it. The Lusiads was now printed at Lisbon in 1572, and celebrating, as it did, the glories of the Portuguese conquests in India, acquired at once a wide popularity. The king himself accepted the dedication of the poem, but the only reward Camoens obtained was a pittance insufficient to save him from poverty; and it is said that his faithful Javanese servant had often to beg food for them both in the streets.
Fifteen years after his death a magnificentmonument was erected to his memory, with an inscription on it which called him the prince of poets. The Lusiads is an epicpoem in ten cantos. Its subject is the voyage of Vasco De Gama to the East Indies; but many other events in the history of Portugal are also introduced. The other works of Camoens consist of sonnets, songs, epigrams, dramas, etc. The Lusiads has been translated into English by William Mickle and Burton as well as by others. Research Luis de Camoens
Maurice Augustus, Count of Benyowsky, was a Hungarian soldier. Hre was born in 1741 and died in 1786. He served in the Seven Years' War; and in 1769 was made prisoner while fighting for the Polish Confederacy. Exiled to Kamtchatka, he gained the affections of the governor's daughter, who assisted him to escape with his companions in 1771. They visited Japan, Macao, etc, and then went to France. The French government having requested him to form a colony in Madagascar he sailed thither, and was made king in 1776 by the native chiefs. He broke with the French government, sought private aid in England and America, sailed again to Madagascar in 1785, and was killed fighting against the French in 1786. His memoirs were published in 1790. Research Maurice Augustus
MO is an abbreviation for Macao
MO is an abbreviation for Mail Order
MO is an abbreviation for Medical Officer
MO is an abbreviation for Missouri
MO is an abbreviation for Modus Operandi
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