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Bilingual portuguese / english edition. Colorful illustrations portray appealing attractions to Fernando Pessoa's Message poems, with the seal of Shantarin publisher. Message is one of the most important poems of portuguese poetry. It was also the only poetry book in portuguese published by Fernando Pessoa during his lifetime, on December 1st, 1934. In this set of poems, the poet reflects on the great events and key players linked to the genesis of Portugal, the golden period of the Maritime Discoveries and its subsequent decline, proposing the future construction of a new and different empire: the Fifth Empire of spiritual, messianic and millenarian matrix. This bilingual edition has introduction, textual edition and notes by António Apolinário Lourenço, english translation by Martin Earl and illustrations by Fatinha Ramos.

Did you know that Fernando Pessoa had already published in 1922, in the magazine Contemporânea, the 12 poems that make up the second part of Message, titled Mar Portuguez, although he made some changes to them when the book was published in December 1934.

Buy now this original and magnificent edition and travel through the history of Portugal towards the Fifth Empire, a spiritual empire of poets.