Antonio Pigafetta (Italian:[anˈtɔːnjopiɡaˈfetta]; c. 1491 – c. 1531) was a Venetian scholar and explorer. 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 much of what is known about Magellan and Elcano's voyage.
AntonioPigafetta (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo piɡaˈfetta]; c. 1491 – c. 1531) was a Venetian scholar and explorer. He joined the Spanish expedition to the Spice...
expedition along the shores of what was referred to in the journals of AntonioPigafetta as "Mazaua". Today, this site is widely believed by many historians...
Malacca. Although Magellan's will calls him "a native of Malacca", AntonioPigafetta states that he was a native of Sumatra. Magellan later took him to...
the few survivors loyal to Magellan was AntonioPigafetta. Though not invited to testify with Elcano, Pigafetta made his own way to Valladolid and presented...
existing primary source mentioning him by name is the account of AntonioPigafetta, and according to historian Resil B. Mojares, no European who left...
AntonioPigafetta was an Italian destroyer, and one of a dozen Navigatori-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the late...
and in forest clearings up to 900 m in elevation. It is named for AntonioPigafetta and is sometimes misspelled as Pigafettia. Thought to contain only...
poet AntonioPigafetta, Italian explorer Antonio Pignatelli, better known as Pope Innocent XII Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter Antonio Prieto...
September 1522. The battle's exact details are lost to history, with AntonioPigafetta's account being the only source for much of the known information today...
Seville, embarked seeking the king's pardon for previous misdeeds. AntonioPigafetta, a Venetian scholar and traveller, asked to be on the voyage, accepting...
information was written by Magellan's Italian voyage chronicler, AntonioPigafetta on Humabon and the indigenous Philippine peoples that existed prior...
his principal source for his reconstruction of the above episode as AntonioPigafetta as edited by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Ramusio was the foremost travel...
written in or not long after 1663.: 181 : 204 Kopiah is recorded in Pigafetta's Italian-Malay vocabulary of 1521 (published 1524) as cophia.: 132 : 235 ...
Known to indigenous peoples in the area for thousands of years, AntonioPigafetta also documented these in his journal as early as 1521. One of a number...
Maluku Islands in their circumnavigation of the world in the 1520s. AntonioPigafetta, one of the expedition's few survivors and the chronicler of Magellan's...
Humabon of Cebu. Another type of blood compact was also described by AntonioPigafetta during their stopover in Palawan (after the death of Magellan). It...
books and manuscripts noteworthy of these being the extant codex of AntonioPigafetta's relation of the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand...
was first witnessed and documented for Westerners by the Italian AntonioPigafetta, Magellan's chronicler, in the Kingdom of Taytay. The gamecocks (not...
Encyclopedia of Modern Sex. HarperCollins. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-06-087434-6. AntonioPigafetta; Theodore J. Cachey (1995), The first voyage around the world (1519-1522):...
Ocean. The name for the Samar island was approximated as Zamal by AntonioPigafetta in 1521. In 1543, King Iberein with his official oarsmen approached...
Tagalog and Hiligaynon. The numbers were first recorded by chronicler AntonioPigafetta during Magellan's expedition. The native numbers are categorized into...
Filippo Pigafetta (1533–1604) was an Italian mathematician and explorer. Pigafetta's Relatione del reame del Congo (A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and...
period. The first attestation of the use of the term was caphri, by AntonioPigafetta of the Magellan expedition. They were described by the people of Suluan...
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