Luís de Sousa

Luís de Sousa (born 1555, Santarém, Port.—died May 5, 1632, Bemfica, near Lisbon) was a monastic historian whose prose style in his chronicle of the Dominican order earned him an important position in the history of Portuguese literature. Sousa may have studied law at the University of Coimbra. About 1576 he became a novice in the Knights of Malta but did not continue his religious affiliation at that time. Between 1584 and 1586 he married...