Peter Martyr Anglerius

Peter Martyr Anglerius, historian, was born in 1459 at Arona, on the Lago Maggiore, of an ancient family belonging to Anghera, obtained a footing at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1487, and rose to high ecclesiastical preferment in Spain. He was ultimately named Bishop of Jamaica, and died at Granada in 1525. He wrote De Orbe Novo (1516), giving the first account of the discovery of America; De Legatione Babilonica (1516); and Opus Epistolarum (1530). See Bernays, Petrus Martyr Anglerius und sein Opus Epistolarum (1890).