Antonio Pigafetta
Also known as Antony Pigafetta, Anthony Pigapheta, Anthoyne Pigaphete, Antonio Pedro Pigafetta, Antonio Lombardo, Pigafetta, Pigapheta, Pigaphete
Venetian diplomat, historian, and explorer of the Pacific and Chile
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- c. 1480
- Died
- c. 1531
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- 30
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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.
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1490s births1531 deaths16th-century Italian explorers16th-century Italian historians16th-century Italian male writers16th-century Spanish explorers16th-century Spanish historiansExplorers from the Republic of VeniceHistorians of the PhilippinesItalian chroniclersItalian explorers of South AmericaItalian explorers of the Pacific