Daniel Levi de Barrios; 1635 – 1701) was a poet, playwright, and historian, born in Montilla, Spain to a Portuguese converso family.
He was a prolific author, whose best known work is a memorialization of victims of the Inquistion, Contra la verdad no hay fuerza (before 1672), and a laudatory portrayal of Amsterdam's Sephardic community, Triumpho del govierno popular (1683).
A family member was tried by the Spanish Inquisition, and Barrios's father fled to Portugal, and remained for a time at Marialva, and also in the vicinity of Villa-Flor.
Miguel went to Italy and lived for a time at Nice, France, where his paternal aunt was married to Abraham de Torres.
He then stayed for a longer time at Livorno, where another sister of his father, the wife of Isaac Cohen de Sosa, prevailed upon him to declare himself publicly a Jew.
De Barrios spent some years in Brussels, where he came much in contact with Spanish and Portuguese knights, and where he was soon advanced to the rank of captain.
In 1674 De Barrios left the Spanish service and returned to Amsterdam, where he joined the numerous followers of Sabbatai Zevi.
Only the earnest remonstrances of the eminent Rabbi Jacob Sasportas, who had given him advice in regard to the compilation of his "Harmonia del Mundo", and who possessed his full confidence, prevailed with him and induced him to take food and thus by degrees to regain his strength.
In order to earn money for those nearest to him, he sang the praises of the rich Spanish-Portuguese Jews on sad and joyous occasions, or dedicated his minor works to them.
He was buried in the cemetery of Amsterdam, next to his second wife, Abigail, daughter of Isaac de Pina, whom he had married in 1662, and who died in 1686.
The opuscula, or minor literary and biographical works, of De Barrios appeared under various titles at different periods, in two different editions.