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Antonio Pigafetta
AuthorBooks · Second hand1490-1530
Antonio Pigafetta was a Venetian scholar and explorer. In 1519, he joined the Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the world's first documented circumnavigation, and is best known for being the chronicler of the voyage. During the expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant until Magellan's death in the Philippine Islands, and kept an accurate journal, which later assisted him in translating the Cebuano language. It is the first recorded document concerning the language.
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1490
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1530
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Antonio Pigafetta was one of the eighteen survivors who completed the first circumnavigation of the world in 1522.
His travel journal serves as the primary source documenting Ferdinand Magellan's historic expedition.
During the voyage, Pigafetta created the first recorded documentation of the Cebuano language.
Born in Vicenza, this Venetian explorer served as Magellan's personal assistant throughout the expedition.
His major work, the account of the first voyage around the world, remains a fundamental testimony of 16th-century navigation.