Faria y Sousa, Manuel de, a Portuguese poet and historian; entered the diplomatic service, and was for many years secretary to the Spanish embassy at Rome; was a voluminous writer of history and poetry, and did much to develop the literature of his country (1590‒1649).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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