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Bilingual portuguese / french illustrated edition of the Message of Fernando Pessoa, with the seal of Shantarin. Message is one of the most important poems of Portuguese poetry. It was also the only poetry book in Portuguese published in life by Fernando Pessoa, on December 1st, 1934, and in it the poet reflects on the great events and protagonists linked to the genesis of Portugal, the golden age of the Maritime Discoveries and its subsequent decline, proposing the future construction of a new and different empire: the Fifth Empire, spiritual, messianic and millenarian. Bilingual edition with introduction, text editing, fonts and notes by António Apolinário Lourenço, translation into French by Élodie Dupau 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 Mensagem, titled Mar Portuguez, although he made some changes to them when the book was published in December 1934.

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