Back بييترو مارتيري دانغييرا Arabic بييترو مارتيرى دانجييرا ARZ Pere Màrtir d'Angleria Catalan Petrus Martyr von Anghiera German Πέτρος Μάρτυς της Ανγκιέρα Greek Pedro Mártir de Anglería Spanish Pierre Martyr d'Anghiera French Petrus Martir d'Anghiera ID Pietro Martire d'Anghiera Italian ピエトロ・マルティーレ・ダンギエーラ Japanese
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (Latin: Petrus Martyr Anglerius or ab Angleria; Italian: Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; Spanish: Pedro Mártir de Anglería; 2 February 1457 – October 1526), formerly known in English as Peter Martyr of Angleria,[1] was an Italian historian at the service of Spain during the Age of Exploration. He wrote the first accounts of explorations in Central and South America in a series of letters and reports, grouped in the original Latin publications of 1511 to 1530 into sets of ten chapters called "decades". His Decades of the New World are of great value in the history of geography and discovery. His De Orbe Novo (On the New World, 1530) describes the first contacts of Europeans and Native Americans, Native American civilizations in the Caribbean and North America, as well as Mesoamerica, and includes, for example, the first European reference to India rubber. It was first translated into English in 1555, and in a fuller version in 1912.
- ^ D'Anghiera, Peter Martyr. De Orbe Novo (in Latin). Trans. Richard Eden as The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilands lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne, Book III, §3. William Powell (London), 1555.