Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (died 1526)

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera

Italian historian (1457–1526)

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, 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…