Luis Barahona de Soto (1548 – 5 November 1595) was a Spanishpoet.

Born atLucena (Cordoba), he was educated atGranada, and practised as aphysician atArchidona (Málaga). His major work is thePrimera parte de la Angélica (1586), a continuation of theOrlando furioso. The second part of the poem was long believed to be lost, but fragments of it have been identified in the anonymousDiálogos de la monteria, first printed in 1890; theDiálogos also embody fragments of a poem by Barahona entitledLos Principios del mundo, and many graceful lyrics by the same writer have been published by Francisco Rodríguez Marín.

Miguel de Cervantes describes Barahona as "one of the best poets not only in Spain, but in the whole world"; this is friendly hyperbole. Nevertheless Barahona has poetic imagination, ingenious fancy, and an exceptional mastery of the methods transplanted to Spain fromItaly. HisAngélica has been reproduced in facsimile (New York, 1904) by Archer M Huntington.

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)."Barahona de Soto, Luis" .Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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