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Diogo de Couto (Lisbon, c. 1542 – Goa, 10 December 1616) was a Portuguese historian. ==Biography== He was born in Lisbon in 1542 (son of Gaspar do Couto and Isabel Serrão Calvos) and studied Latin and Rhetoric at Saint Antão College and philosophy at the convent at Benfica. In March 1559 (Armada of Pero Vaz de Sequeira) he traveled to Portuguese India, whence he would not return for a decade; as a soldier he took part in the Surrat campaign in March 1560, living in Baroche in 1563. Returns to Lisbon with D.António de Noronha in 1569. He was a close friend of the poet Luís de Camões, and described him in Ilha de Moçambique in 1569, indebted and unable to fund his return to Portugal. Couto and other friends took it upon themselves to help Camões, who was thus enabled to take his most significant work, the ''Lusiads'', to the capital. Couto arrived in Lisbon on board the ''Santa Clara'' in April 1570, only to discover that the port was closed due to plague. Upon receiving permission from the King of Portugal (who he will meet in Almeirim), the ship docked in Tejo. Shortly after Couto returns to India in the Armada of D. António de Noronha; marries with Luisa de Melo in Goa, and works in a supply warehouse. In 1595 (shortly after completing the first DECADA) Couto is invited to organize the Goa archive (being appointed "Guarda-Mor do Tombo da India"), and to continue writing the DECADAS (of João de Barros). In his life time were published the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th DECADAS; when Couto died, his other works were in the hands of his brother-in-law, the priest Deodato da Trindade. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diogo de Couto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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