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Peter Martyr d’Anghiera

Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, (1457-1526), was chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. In 1493 he claimed Hispaniola and the nearby islands were Antillae insulae, which he associated with the legend of the Isle of the Seven Cities.

Andrew Collins noted in Gateway to Atlantis [72.185] that  “All the evidence points towards the fact that the legends surrounding Antillia and the Seven Cities predate the exploration of the Western Ocean during the age of discovery by many hundreds, if not thousands, of years.”  Collins then proceeded to investigate the “true origins behind the story of Antilia and its legendary Seven Cities.”