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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 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 127,728 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Martyr d'Anghiera is the 148th most popular historian, the 2,033rd most popular biography from Italy and the 14th most popular Italian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 148 out of 339. Before him are Vladimir Minorsky, Otto von Gierke, Adémar de Chabannes, Matthew of Edessa, Philostorgius, and Ibn Hibban. After him are Marin Barleti, Gottfried Achenwall, Ibn Wahshiyya, Martino Martini, Max Weinreich, and Arnold Toynbee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1457, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 8. Before him are Mary of Burgundy, Filippino Lippi, Seongjong of Joseon, Beatrice of Naples, Jacob Obrecht, and Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria.  Among people deceased in 1526, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 11. Before him are Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, Scipione del Ferro, Rodrigo de Triana, Ibrahim Lodi, and Elisabetta Gonzaga. After him are 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 2,033 out of 4,668. Before him are Lanfranc (1005), Ernesto Cesàro (1859), Daniele Massaro (1961), Jacopone da Todi (1236), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), and Emerentiana (250). After him are Walter VI, Count of Brienne (1302), Nigidius Figulus (-98), Leone Leoni (1509), Franco Citti (1935), Archduke Anton Victor of Austria (1779), and Janus of Cyprus (1375).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera ranks 14. Before him are Francesco Guicciardini (1483), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Timaeus (-350), Flavio Biondo (1388), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), and Andrea Alciato (1492). After him are Martino Martini (1614), Festus (390), Philistus (-430), Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200), and Filippo Baldinucci (1625).

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