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Decades of the New World

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| image = De orbe nouo titulus.jpg

| image_caption = Title page of 1530 De orbe novo (1st ed.).

| books = {{plainlist|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 = {{plainlist|Jacobo Cromberger, Arnao Guillén de Brocar, Adam Petri, Michaelis de Eguia}}

| pub_date = 1511–1530

| english_pub_date = 1555–1612

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Decades of the New World ({{small|Latin:}} De orbe novo decades; {{small|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.

History

In 1530 the eight Decades were published together for the first time at Alcalá. Later editions of single or of all the Decades appeared at Basel (1533), Cologne (1574), Paris (1587), and Madrid (1892). A German translation was published in Basle in 1582; a French one by Gaffarel in Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l'histoire de la Geographie (Paris, 1907).

The first three decades were translated into English by Richard Eden and published in 1555 (found in Arber's [https://books.google.com/books?id=VHoKAQAAIAAJ The first three English books on America] Birmingham, 1885), thus beginning the genre of English discovery travel writing, which stimulated English exploration of the New World.Parks 1928, pp. 21, 23. Eden's translations were reprinted with supplementary materials in 1577 by Richard Willes under the new title, The historie of travayle into the West and east Indies. Richard Hakluyt had the remaining five decades translated into English by Michael Lok and published in London in 1612.

Contents

The Decades describe the early contacts of Europeans and Native Americans derived from narratives of the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean, reports from Hernán Cortés's Mexican expedition, and other such resources. They consisted of eight reports, two of which Martyr had previously sent as letters describing the voyages of Columbus, to Cardinal Ascanius Sforza in 1493 and 1494. In 1501 Martyr, as requested by the Cardinal of Aragon, added eight chapters on the voyage of Columbus and the exploits of Martin Alonzo Pinzón. In 1511 he added a supplement giving an account of events from 1501 to 1511. By 1516 he had finished two other Decades:

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|+ Contents of Decades of the New World.León Cázares 2012 pp. 182–195; Cro 2003 pp. 15–16, 22, 37, 45-46, 50-58, 62.Page count as per 1907 French edition {{OL|18050571W}}.

Decade

! Length

! Contents

! Written

! Published

! Colophon

! OCLC

! Note

First

| 10 lib. 128 pp.

| {{hlist|on first three Columbus voyages|on New World|on Hispaniola colony|on other non-Columbus voyages}}

| 14 May 1493 – Dec. 1510

| Apr. 1511

Seville, Crown of Castile

| Hispali: Jacobu[m] Corumberger alemanu[m]

| {{OCLC search link|744565159}}

| Originally denominated Oceani decas. Revised in 1516 edition. Plagiarized translation of incomplete 1501 draft published 1504.First seven liberi plagiarised in Albertino Vercellese, Libretto de tutta la navigazione de Re de Spagna, de le Isole et terreni novamente trovati, Venezia per Albertino da Lisona vercellese, 10 April 1504 (1st ed.). First reprinted in Francenzo da Montalboddo, Paesi Nouamente retrouati et Nouo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato, Vicentia cu[n] la impensa de Mgro Henrico Vicentino, 3 November 1507. Thereafter widely translated and reprinted, including translations from the plagiarized Venetian language into Latin. Cro 2003, pp. 48-52, argues this 1511 edition was not unauthorised.

Second

| 10 lib. 86 pp.

| {{hlist|on Middle American voyages|con Darién colonization}}

| 1514

| 9 Nov. 1516

Alcalá, Crown of Castile

| Alcala: contubernio Arnaldi Guillelmi

| {{OCLC search link|1046912819}}

| –

Third

| 10 lib. 127 pp.

| {{hlist|on last Columbus voyage|on Balboa voyages|on Pedrarias Dávila expedition|on Hispaniola|on Darién}}

| 1514–1516

| 9 Nov. 1516

Alcalá, Crown of Castile

| Alcala: contubernio Arnaldi Guillelmi

| {{OCLC search link|1046912819}}

| –

Fourth

| 10 lib. 47 pp.

| {{hlist|on Yucatán expeditions|on Mesoamerica|on Hispaniola|on Darién}}

| 1520

| 1521

Basel, Swiss Confederacy

| Basileae: [Adam Petri]

| {{OCLC search link|824268303}}

| –

Fifth

| 10 lib. 149 pp.

| {{hlist|on Cortés conquest|on Tenochtitlan|on Magallanes circumnavigation}}

| 1521–1523

| Dec. 1530

Madrid, Crown of Castile

| Compluti: Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia

| {{OCLC search link|1334839188}}

| –

Sixth

| 10 lib. 27 pp.

| {{hlist|on southern Central America|on Maluku Islands controversy}}

| 1524

| Dec. 1530

Madrid, Crown of Castile

| Compluti: Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia

| {{OCLC search link|1334839188}}

| –

Seventh

| 10 lib. 78 pp.

| {{hlist|on Cortés rivalry|on conquistadors|on cosmography|on Hispaniola}}

| 1524

| Dec. 1530

Madrid, Crown of Castile

| Compluti: Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia

| {{OCLC search link|1334839188}}

| –

Eighth

| 10 lib. 85 pp.

| {{hlist|on Cortés rivalry|on Mesoamerica|on other voyages|on Maluku Islands}}

| 1524–1525

| Dec. 1530

Madrid, Crown of Castile

| Compluti: Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia

| {{OCLC search link|1334839188}}

| –

Editions

  • P. Martyris ab Angleria Mediolonensi. [http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000099520&page=1 Opera: Legatio babylonica; Occeanea decas; Poemata]. Impressum Hispali (Seville): per Jacobu(m) Corumberger alemanu(m), 1511 (Includes only first Decade).
  • Petri Martyris. [https://archive.org/details/ARes593133 De orbe novo Decades]. In illustri oppido Carpetanae p(ro)vinciae Co(m)pluto quod vulgariter dicitur Alcala: in contubernio Arnaldi Guillelmi, 1516 (Includes only first three Decades).
  • Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis protonotarij Cęsaris senatoris. [https://archive.org/details/deorbenouopetrim00angh De orbe novo decades]. Compluti: apud Michaele(m) de Eguia, 1530 (First complete edition).
  • Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanen. [https://archive.org/details/petrimartyrisaba00angh De rebus oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres] Apud Ioannem Bebelium (Basileae), 1533.
  • Peter Martyr of Angleria. [https://archive.org/stream/firstthreeenglis00arberich#page/42/mode/2up The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne] […]. Wrytten in the Latine tounge[sic] and translated into Englysche by Rycharde Eden. Londini (London): in ædibus Guilhelmi Powell, 1555.
  • Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12425 De orbe novo, translated from the Latin with notes and introduction by Francis Augustus MacNutt] (2 vol.), Putnam (New York), 1912.
  • Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Decadas del nuevo mundo, 1944.
  • Petrus Martyr de Anghieria, Opera: Legatio Babylonica, De Orbe novo decades octo, Opus Epistolarum, Graz: Akademische Druck- U. Verlagsanstalt, 1966 {{ISBN|3-201-00250-X}}

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|+ Select editions of Decades of the New World.León Cázares 2012 pp. 182–195; Cro 2008 paras. 1, 3, incl. para. 3 link; Reed 1965 sec. 6 entitled "Petro Martire d'Anghiera."Including plagiarized editions.

Title

! Contents

! Collaborator

! Colophon

! Date and Place

! Language

! OCLC

! Note

Libretto de tutta la nauigatione de Re de Spagna, de le Isole et terreni nouamente trouati

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Angelo Trevisan, Albertino Vercellese

| Venesia: Albertino da Lisona vercellese

| 10 Apr. 1504

Venice, Republic of Venice

| Italian

| –

| Plagiarized in 1501 from incomplete Latin draft copy.Copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008761589706966/ R H490.P853q]. First facsimile of this copy published 1929, Lawrence C. Wroth editor, {{OCLC|3877063}}. Trevisan's manuscript translations, made in 1501, rediscovered in 1892 (in library of Sneyd of Newcastle, son of Walter Sneyd of London) and published by Guglielmo Berchet in the 1892 Raccolta di documenti e studi pubblicati dalla R. Commissione colombiana, pt. 3, vol. 1, pp. 46–82, {{OCLC|1086578217}}.

Paesi nouamente retrouati et Nouo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Francanzano da Montalboddo

| Vicentia: impensa de Mgro Henrico Vicentino

| 3 Nov. 1507

Vicenza, Republic of Venice

| Italian

| {{OCLC search link|29137136}}

| First reprint of plagiarized 1504 edition.Copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008766479706966/ H507.P126n].

Itinerariu[m] Portugalle[n]siu[m] e Lusitania in India[m] [et] inde in occidentem [et] demum ad aquilonem

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Archangelo Madrignani

| [Mediolani: Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler]

| 1 Jun. 1508

Milan, Duchy of Milan

| Latin

| {{OCLC search link|9088072846}}

| First Latin {{em|translation}} of 1507 edition.

Neuwe umbekanthe landte und ein new weldte in kurtz verganger zeythe erfunden

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Jobst Ruchamer

| Nüreinbergk: mich Georgen Stüchssen

| 20 Sep. 1508

Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

| German

| –

| First German translation of 1507 edition.Digitized copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008766229706966-newevnbekanthela00unkn/ 1-SIZE H508.P126n3].

Paesi nouamente ritrouati & Nouo Mo[n]do da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| –

| Milano: Jo. Jacobo et fratelli da Lignano

| 17 Nov. 1508

Milan, Duchy of Milan

| Italian

| –

| First reprint of 1507 edition.Copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008766269706966/ H508.P126n2].

Nye vnbekande Lande Unde eine nye Werldt in korter vorgangener Tyd gefunden

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Henning Ghetelen, Jobst Ruchamer

| Nüreinberch: my Jürgen Stüchssen

| 18 Nov. 1508

Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

| German

| {{OCLC search link|9811828300}}

| Second German translation of 1507 edition.Copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008766109706966-nyevnbekandeland00unkn/ 1-SIZE H508.P126n1].

S’ensuyt le Nouveau monde et navigations faictes par Émeric de Vespuci, Florentin, des pays et isles nouvellement trouvez, auparavant à nous incongneuz, tant en l’Éthiope que Arrabie, Calichut et aultres plusier régions estranges

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| Mathurin du Redouer

| Paris: de P. Le Noir

| 1510

Paris, Kingdom of France

| French

| {{OCLC search link|1100239410}}

| First French translation of 1507 edition.

P[etrus] Martyris angli mediolanensis opera Legatio babylonica Oceani decas Poemata Epigrammata

| 1st dec.

| –

| Hispali: Jacobu[m] Corumberger alemanu[m]

| Apr. 1511

Seville, Crown of Castile

| Latin

| {{OCLC search link|744565159}}

| First edition to contain the {{em|complete}} first decade.

Paesi nouame[n]te ritrouati [et] Nouo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| –

| Milano: Io. Iacobo & Fratelli da Lignano

| 1512

Milan, Duchy of Milan

| Italian

| –

| Second reprint of 1507 edition.Copy in John Carter Brown Library, call no. [https://americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/jcbcap-991008766419706966/ H512.P126n].

S’ensuyt le Nouveau Monde & navigations: faictes par Emeric de Vespuce, Florentin, des pays & isles nouvellement trouvez, auparavant a nous incongneuz tant en lethiope que Arrabie, Calichut et aultres plusier régions estranges

| {{em|partial}} 1st dec.

| –

| Paris: veuve de Jean I Trepperel et Jean Jehannot

| 1515

Paris, Kingdom of France

| French

| {{OCLC search link|1254656851}}

| Second French translation of 1507 edition.

Anglerius Petrus Martyr De Orbe Novo Decades

| 1st–3rd dec.

| –

| Alcala: contubernio Arnaldi Guillelmi

| 9 Nov. 1516

Alcalá, Crown of Castile

| Latin

| {{OCLC search link|1046912819}}

| First edition to contain second and third decades.

De nvper svb D. Carolo repertis insulis, simulq[ue] incolarum moribus, r. Petri Martyris Enchiridion, dominae Margaritae, divi Max. caes. filiae dicatum

| 4th dec.

| –

| Basileae: [Adam Petri]

| 1521

Basel, Swiss Confederacy

| Latin

| {{OCLC search link|824268303}}

| First edition to contain fourth decade.

De orbe nouo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis Protonotarij Cesaris senatoris decades

| {{em|all}} dec.

| –

| Compluti: Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia

| Dec. 1530

Madrid, Crown of Castile

| Latin

| {{OCLC search link|1334839188}}

| First edition to contain all eight decades.

The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India

| 1st–3rd dec.

| Richard Eden

| Londini: Guilhelmi Powell

| 1555

London, Kingdom of England

| English

| {{OCLC search link|671311867}}

| First English edition to contain first three decades.

De nouo orbe, or the historie of the west Indies

| {{em|all}} dec.

| Michael Lok, Richard Eden

| London: [by Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Adams

| 1612

London, Kingdom of England

| English

| {{OCLC search link|367981073}}

| First complete English edition.

Fuentes históricas sobre Colón y América

| {{em|all}} dec.

| Joaquín Torres Asensio

| Madrid: San Francisco de Sales

| 1892

Madrid, Kingdom of Spain

| Spanish

| {{OCLC search link|697768851}}

| First complete Spanish edition.

Décadas del nuevo mundo

| {{em|all}} dec.

| Agustín Millares Carlo, Edmundo O'Gorman, Joseph H. Sinclair

| México: José Porrúa e Hijos

| 1964–1965

Mexico City, Mexico

| Spanish

| {{OCLC search link|79175629}}

| First complete Mexican edition.

See also

Notes

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References

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  • Cro, Stelio. "La Princeps y la cuestión del plagio del De Orbe Novo." In Cuadernos para investigación de la literatura hispánica (Journal), vol. 28, pp. 15-240. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2003.
  • Cro, Stelio. "[https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/I%20found%20it%20JCB/July08.html Joan Apple and the Naming of America]." In I found it at the JCB (Blog). Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 2008.
  • Gerbi, Antonello, and Jeremy Moyle. Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
  • León Cázares, María del Carmen. "Pedro Mártir de Anglería." In Rosa Camelo and Patricia Escandón, eds. Historiografía mexicana: la creación de una imagen propria: la tradición española: historiografía civil, vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 164-196. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012.
  • Parks, George Bruner. Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928.
  • Reed, Richard B. "[https://liblilly.sitehost.iu.edu/etexts/discovery/index.shtml Discovery: An Exhibition of Boks Relating to the Age of Geographical Dixcovery and Exploration Prepared for the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries]." In Lilly Library Publications Online (Blog). Bloomington: Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1965.
  • Wagner, Henry. "Peter Martyr and His Works." In Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (Journal), vol. 56, iss. 2, pp. 239-288. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1947.

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