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    Background-of-the-Author (Antonio Pigafetta)

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    Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian explorer and scholar born around 1491 in Vicenza, Italy. He studied astronomy, geography, and cartography. In 1519, he joined Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, which was the first circumnavigation of the globe. Pigafetta kept a journal chronicling the voyage and was one of only 18 survivors. After returning to Spain in 1522, he continued working to publish his account of the expedition, but died around 1534 in Vicenza at the age of around 40-50 years old.

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    Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian explorer and scholar born around 1491 in Vicenza, Italy. He studied astronomy, geography, and cartography. In 1519, he joined Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, which was the first circumnav

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    “Five of the islands where grow the cloves [Moluccas],” watercolor in Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, by Antonio Pigafetta, French translation, Beinecke MS 351, fol. 85 verso (collections.library.yale.edu)

    Antonio Pigafetta, a Ventetian writer and adventurer, set sail on Sep. 20, 1519, on board the Trinidad, on what would vända out to be the first circumnavigation of the globe.  The captain of the Trinidad was Fernão de Magalhães, a Portuguese navigator known to English speakers as Ferdinand Magellan.  Although Portuguese, Magellan was sailing beneath the flag and patronage of the King of Spain.  The purpose was to find a new western rutt to the Spice Islands.  Pigafetta was on board as a supernumerary, just along for the ride.  He intended to write and publish an konto of his adventures.

    Title page, Navigation et decouvrement dem la Inde superieure et isls dem Malucque, translation of Relazione del prim

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    Antonio Pigafetta

    16th-century Venetian explorer

    Antonio Pigafetta (Italian:[anˈtɔːnjopiɡaˈfetta]; c. 1491 – c. 1531) 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 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.

    Pigafetta was one of the 18 men who made the complete trip, returning to Spain in 1522, under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, out of the approximately 240 who set out three years earlier. These men completed the first circumnavigation of the world while others mutinied and returned in the first year. Pigafetta's surviving journal is the source for mu

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