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Samuel Usque

Portuguese writer

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Portuguese literature

  • João de Barros
    In Portuguese literature: The novel and other prose

    …are several masterly prose stylists: Samuel Usque with his Consolaçam às tribulaçõens de Israel (1553; “Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel”), a pastoral dialogue on the sufferings of the Jewish people; Heitor Pinto with his Imagem da vida Cristã (part I 1563, part II 1572; “Image of the Christian Life”);…

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