David Horspool

The poet and the polymath: two 16th-century Portuguese travellers

Edward Wilson-Lee examines the world through the eyes of Luís de Camões and Damião de Góis, and finds their views very different

Portrait of Damião de Góis by Albrecht Dürer. [Bridgeman Images] 
issue 30 July 2022
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