André de Resende (1498–1573) was a Dominican friar who is considered to be father of archaeology in Portugal.
[citation needed] He spent many years traveling in Spain, France and Belgium, where he corresponded with Erasmus and other learned men.
[1] Resende enjoyed considerable fame in his lifetime, although the accuracy of his accounts was later brought into question.
In Portuguese he wrote: His chief Latin work is the De Antiquitatibus Lusitaniae (Evora, 1593).
[1] See the "Life" of Resende in Farinha's Collecção das antiguidades de Evora (1785), and a biographical-critical article by Rivara in the Revista Litteraria (Porto, 1839), iii.