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Antonio Pigafetta
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Venetian diplomat, historian, and explorer of the Pacific and Chile
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Antonio Pigafetta (1490–1530) was an Italian explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice. Born and deceased in Vicenza, he participated in the Magellan-Elcano expedition. He was a recipient of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and wrote in Italian.
His literary output includes works such as *Relazione del primo Viaggio Intorno al Mondo* and *Il primo viaggio intorno al mondo di Antonio Pigafetta e il "roteiro" d'un Pilota genovese*. He also authored volumes of *Magellan's Voyage Around the World*. Records indicate he is associated with five, thirty, or two works depending on the source, and his writings are referenced by 242 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- c. 1480
- Died
- c. 1531
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Relazione del primo Viaggio Intorno al Mondo
- Il primo viaggio intorno al mondo di Antonio Pigafetta e il "roteiro" d'un Pilota genovese
- Magellan's Voyage Around the World Volume; Volume 2
- Magellan's Voyage Around the World Volume; Volume 1
- Magellan's Voyage Around the World; V. 3
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1678-03-04
- Active to
- 1741-07-28
Discography
- Antonio Vivaldi Complete Recorder Concertos
- Cello Concertos
- Choral Works, Volume 1
- Concerti, Sinfonia
- Concertos For Violin And Orchestra
- Concertos on Authentic Instruments
- Four Seasons And More
- Gloria, Stabat Mater
- Las Cuatro Estaciones y Otros Conciertos
- Le Quattro Stagioni = Die Vier Jahreszeiten = The Four Seasons
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,949x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,904x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,561x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- between 1480 and 1491, Vicenza , Republic of Venice , (present-day Italy )
- Died
- c. 1534 (aged around 40–50), Vicenza, Republic of Venice
- Years active
- 1500s–20s
- Known for
- Chronicling Magellan's circumnavigation
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Antonio Pigafetta, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Antonio Pigafetta ( Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo piɡaˈfetta]; c. 1491 – c. 1534) 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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonio Pigafetta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.