 Title page of 1530 De orbe novo (1st ed.). | |
1511 P. Martyris angli mediolanensis opera Legatio babylonica Oceani decas Poemata Epigrammata [1st dec.] 1516 Anglerius Petrus Martyr De Orbe Novo Decades [1st–3rd dec.] 1521 De nuper sub D. Carolo repertis insulis, simulq[ue] incolarum moribus, r. Petri Martyris Enchiridion, dominae Margaritae, divi Max. caes. filiae dicatum [4th dec.] 1530 De orbe nouo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis Protonotarij Cesaris senatoris decades [1st–8th dec.] | |
| Author | Peter Martyr d'Anghiera |
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| Country | Spain, Switzerland |
| Language | Latin |
| Discipline | Official, narrative history |
| Publisher | Jacobo Cromberger, Arnao Guillén de Brocar, Adam Petri, Michaelis de Eguia
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| Published | 1511–1530 |
| Published in English | 1555–1612 |
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| No. of books | 4 |
Decades of the New World (Latin: De orbe novo decades; Spanish: Décadas del nuevo mundo), by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, is a collection of eight narrative tracts recounting early Spanish exploration, conquest and colonization of the New World, exploration of the Pacific, and related miscellany. The first four of these tracts were first published disjointly in three volumes in 1511, 1516, and 1521. All eight tracts were first anthologized, that is, first published as the completed Decades of the New World collection, in 1530. Being among the earliest histories of the Age of Discovery, the Decades are of great value to the history of geography and discovery.