Os Lusíadas is frequently compared to a poem by Virgil written in which language ?
Aeneid The Aeneid ( ; Latin: "Aeneis" ] ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
Canto The canto (] ) is a principal form of division in a long poem. The word "canto" is derived from Italian word for "song" or singing; which is derived from the Latin "cantus", for "a song", from the infinitive verb "canere"—to sing. The use of the canto was described in the 1911 edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" as " a convenient division when poetry was more usually sung by the minstrel to his own accompaniment than read". There is no specific format, construction, or style for a canto and it is not limited to any one type of poetry.