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Peter Martyr d'Anghiera Quotes

1457–1526 Italy

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (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".

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It is the sword that women fear and observe more than the gravity of Cato.

De Orbe Novo (1530)

Most ferocious are those new anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, Caribs or cannibals as they are called.

It is not necessary to be always consistent.

Women generally keep the fire better than they do a secret.

He has related the great deeds of the Portuguese, but whether he witnessed them, as he pretends, or has merely profited by the labour of another, I am unable to state. Vivat et ipse marte suo.

Brought up on soft feathers.

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