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Updated: June 28, 2025
On the twenty-ninth of August the Spanish ambassador, after taking leave of Innocent VIII., set out from Rome on his return journey to Spain, and with him went Peter Martyr d'Anghera. Spain in the year 1487 presented a striking contrast to Italy where, from the days of Dante to those of Machiavelli, the land had echoed to the vain cry: Pax, pax et non erat pax.
Though bearing the name of the former burgh, it was in Arona , where his family also possessed a property, that Pietro Martire d'Anghera first saw the light, in the year 1457 . 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.
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