As cartas de Camões têm sido consideradas reprováveis manifestações
de comportamentos marginais. No entanto, constituem importantes
testemunhos de uma ampla crÃtica social que ajudam a entender melhor a sua
poesia e o seu, frequentemente irónico, uso literário do petrarquismo.
Camões’ letters have always been dismissed as reprehensible
expressions of marginal forms of behaviour. In fact, they are a rich source
of social criticism that provides telling insights into his poetry and his often
ironic literary use of Petrarchism.
