Bustos (Y Viana), Luiz F

Bustos (Y Viana), Luiz F.

a Spanish writer, was born at Granada in 1690. He was made, in 1756, by king Ferdinand VI., historiographer of the new discoveries in Granada. He has been called, by some Spanish writer, the Coryphaeus of Spanish literature, and the prince of ecclesiastical historians." Among his works are, A Dissertation on the Arrival of St. Janes the Great in Spain: — A Catalogue of all the Bishops, Religious Orders, Great Colleges, Inquisitors General, and Grandees of Spain: — Dissertations on the Authenticity of St. Veronica of Jaen : — A Dissertation on the Spanish Liturgy : — A Critique on almost every Ecclesiastical Author; etc.