Journal of magellan's voyage english
Write a brief summary of the first voyage around the world by magellan by antonio pigafetta.
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.
The voyage of magellan: the journal of antonio pigafetta
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