Manuel de Sousa Sepulveda can be considered one of the most unfortunate sailors of the tragic Portuguese maritime history, due to his severe doom on African soil – in which the knight of honored fame, after the wreck of his galleon, saw his wife and children starve and die. As observed in several representations of Manuel de Sousa Sepulveda, even in the camonian epic, or in accounts of shipwrecks, in the lyric and postmodern narratives, the creation of a historical and literary character that pervades the Portuguese collective imagery as one of the representatives of the misfortunes related to vain greed. Sometimes as an unfortunate hero in traditional texts, sometimes as an anti-hero in the contemporary ones, his constant presence along all Portuguese Literature immortalizes him as one of the greatest myths of the Lusitanian imagery.