Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera was born on February 2, 1457. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (2 February 1457 – October 1526), formerly known in English as Peter Martyr of Angleria, was a Savoyard 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 (De Orbe Novo) is of great value in the history of geography and discovery. He describes the first contacts of Europeans and Native American civilisations in the…