Peter Martyr is the name of:
- Peter of Verona, 13th-century martyr
- Peter Martyr Vermigli, 16th-century Italian theologian
- Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, 16th-century Italian-born historian of Spain and its New World discoveries
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or martyr:
“Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
“The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)