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Peter of Verona

Italian Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint

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Jan 19, 2026

How do Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s accounts compare textually to other 16th‑century chronicles used to locate San Miguel de Gualdape?

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias stands as one of the few near‑contemporary, widely disseminated textual anchors for the lost colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, an...

Jan 13, 2026

What primary Spanish documents survive about Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 expedition?

Surviving Spanish documentation for Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 expedition is thin and fragmentary: historians rely chiefly on royal grants and legal contracts, contemporaneous chroniclers’ reports...