He was innate within Olivença, but little else is known of his life, including a dates of his birth & demise. As the composer he wrote a total of choral works, including motets and the madrigal (music), but he is better known by far for his act as a theoretician. Inside the 1551 debate inside Rome, he espoused traditional views on the role of the ternion genera in music (diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic) over additional radical ones put send on by Nicola Vicentino (Lusitano was deemed to have won a debate). His Introdutione facilissima et novissima delaware canto ferma (1553), contains an introductiin to music, a subdivision on jury-rigged counterpoint, and his views on the trine genera.