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Peter Martyr d'Anghiera

1457 - 1526

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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, 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 (De Orbe Novo) are of great value in the history of geography and discovery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera has received more than 136,924 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Peter Martyr d'Anghiera is the 153rd most popular historian (down from 148th in 2019), the 2,046th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,028th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Historian.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 153 out of 561. Before him are Max Dvořák, Faustus of Byzantium, Ian Kershaw, Barbara W. Tuchman, Norman Davies, and Gottfried Achenwall. After him are Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Edward Luttwak, Helmold, Paisius of Hilendar, Marin Barleti, and Matthew of Edessa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1457, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 8. Before him are Mary of Burgundy, Seongjong of Joseon, Filippino Lippi, Jacob Obrecht, Beatrice of Naples, and Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria.  Among people deceased in 1526, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 10. Before him are Isabella of Austria, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Scipione del Ferro, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, Ibrahim Lodi, and Rodrigo de Triana. After him are Elisabetta Gonzaga, Shō Shin, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Conrad Grebel, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, and Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 2,046 out of 5,161. Before him are Anna Sforza (1476), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Aloysius Bertrand (1807), Antonio Grimani (1434), Walter VI, Count of Brienne (1302), and Antonio Possevino (1533). After him are Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514), Ferrante Gonzaga (1507), Bartolomeo Montagna (1450), Alberto Lattuada (1914), Antipope Sylvester IV (1100), and Clare of Montefalco (1268).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 14. Before him are Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Flavio Biondo (1388), Timaeus (-350), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), and Andrea Alciato (1492). After him are Martino Martini (1614), Philistus (-430), Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Festus (390), Annius of Viterbo (1437), and Marino Sanuto the Younger (1466).

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