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The Project Gutenberg EBook of De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) by Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera Author: Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt Release Date: May 24, 2004 [EBook #12425] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DE ORBE NOVO, VOLUME 1 (OF 2) *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Lesley Halamek and PG Distributed Proofreaders DE ORBE NOVO The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera Translated from the Latin with Notes and Introduction By Francis Augustus MacNutt In Two Volumes Volume One 1912 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BIBLIOGRAPHY THE FIRST DECADE THE SECOND DECADE THE THIRD DECADE ILLUSTRATIONS CARDINAL ASCANIO SFORZA From the Medallion by Luini, in the Museum at Milan. Photo by Anderson, Rome. LEO X. From an Old Copper Print. (No longer in the book.) DE ORBE NOVO INTRODUCTION I Distant a few miles from the southern extremity of Lago Maggiore, the castle-crowned heights of Anghera and Arona face one another from opposite sides of the lake, separated by a narrow stretch of blue water. Though bearing the name of the former burgh, it was in Arona[1], where his family also possessed a property, that Pietro Martire d'Anghera first saw the light, in the year 1457[2]. He was not averse to reminding his friends of the nobility of his family, whose origin he confidently traced to the Counts of Anghera, a somewhat fabulous dynasty, the glories of whose mythical domination in Northern Italy are preserved in local legends and have not remained entirely unnoticed by sober history. What name his family bore is unknown; the statement that it was a branch of the Sereni, originally made by Celso Rosini and repeated by later writers, being devoid of foundation. Ties of relationship, which seem to have united his immediate forebears with the illustrious family of Trivulzio and possibly also with that of Borromeo, furnished him with sounder justification for some pride of ancestry than did the remoter gestes of the apocryphal Counts of Angher
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