Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, Selections from Peter Martyr [Latin]

by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera

The first decade, or volume, of Peter Martyr's reports on the New World, published in 1511 as De Orbe Novo, was in fact the first European history of America. For twenty years after Columbus's voyages of discovery, Martyr's letters; in various versions, served as Europe's primary printed source for the Caribbean and the emerging continent of South America. Martyr, a wise observer and great storyteller, is one of the major informants on the voyages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 2503507905
• ISBN13: 9782503507903
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.2" x 10.1"