De nouo orbe, or, The historie of the West Indies
contayning the actes and aduentures of the Spanyardes, which haue conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, gouernments, and warres of the Indians : comprised in eight decades
by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera
One of the most fascinating book I ever read on the history of the birth of the Americas. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera arrived in Spain in 1487. As a foreign scholar of modest repute, and dependent on the protection of his patron, the Count of Tendilla, Peter Martyr had risen in royal favour, until he came to occupy honourable positions in the State and numerous benefices in the Church. His services to his protectors were valued and valuable. His house, wherever he happened for the time to be, was hospitable meeting-place where statesmen, noblemen, foreign envoys, great ecclesiastics, and papal legates came together with navigators and conquerors, cosmographers, colonial officials, and returning explorers from antipodal regions Spain’s empire builders. It was in such society he collected the mass of first-hand information he sifted and chronicled in the Decades and Opus Epistolarum, which have proven such an inexhaustible mine for students of Spanish and Spanish-American history. Truly of him may it be said that nothing human was alien to his spirit. Intercourse with him was prized as a privilege by the great men of his time, while he converted his association with them to his own and posterity’s profit. knew most of the great explorers of his time, including Columbus. Page 23 of the book/Carl Roc
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First preliminary leaf blank; has signature A
"Certaine preambles here followe, gathered by R. Eden heretofore, for the better vnderstanding of the whole worke": leaves 1-7
First complete English translation of the eight Decades. The four translated by Eden had appeared as early as 1555, and again in 1577 with an abridgment of Decades 5-8
Sabin 1563
Microopaque. Louisville [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1966. 17 microcards : positive ; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time)
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| January 2, 2012 | Edited by 67.85.179.114 | I had forgotten the 7 in 1487. |
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