Commemorate Camões and rethink the nation: Joaquim Nabuco's speech during the celebration of the tercentenary of the death of Camões in Rio de Janeiro (1880)

This article analyzes the events held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1880 to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Luis de Camoes, emphasizing the speech given by Joaquim Nabuco. The aim is to investigate Nabuco's speech in light of the cultural and political relations between Brazil and Portugal at that time, highlighting the fact that the tercentenary celebrations emphasized an ideal Brazilian national identity defined as fundamentally Lusitanian. Nabuco's contribution to the development of this representation of the nation is the aim of this article.

Camões; Camões' tercentenary; Luso-Brazilian relations