What is Afonso Africano (epic poem)?
'''Afonso Africano''' is an epic poem by Portuguese poet [[Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo|Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco]]. It was first published in 1611.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm |title=Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo e Castelo Branco at Projecto Vercial. |access-date=2016-11-06 |archive-date=2017-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301213807/http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/quevedo.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is composed of twelve cantos.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Oliveira| first1 = Francisco de| last2 = Teixeira| first2 = Claudia| last3 = Dias| first3 = Paula Barata| title = Espacos e paisagens: Antiguidade Classica e herancas contemporaneas: vol. II: linguas e literaturas: Idade Media: Renascimento: recepcao (2.a edicao| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=i1rQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA337| year = 2012| publisher = Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press| isbn = 978-989-26-0283-7| page = 337 }}</ref> It is written in [[ottava rima]]<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/ottava-rima Ottava rima in Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> which in Portugal is known as oitava rima. This stanza is made up of eight lines and rhymes abababcc. The same was earlier used by [[Luís de Camões]] in his [[Lusiads]]. Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo's poem narrates about Portuguese king [[Afonso V of Portugal|Afonso]] who was called The African. In the poem his expedition to [[Morocco]], the war and the sieges of Arzilla and Tanger are described.<ref>{{cite book| last = Łukaszyk| first = Ewa| title = Archipelagi wyobrazni: z dziejow toposu wyspy w kregu literatur romanskich| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UDHseR8BAjwC&pg=PA60| year = 2007| publisher = Wydawnictwo UJ| isbn = 978-83-233-2299-3| page = 60 }}</ref> The first stanza is typical for Renaissance epic poems. : ''As armas e o varão ilustre canto'' : ''que de Africano tem insígnia e nome,'' : ''cuja alta fama será viva, enquanto'' : ''no dourado horizonte o Sol assome.'' : ''Donde começ