AUTHOR: ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

LANGUAGE: FRENCH

DATE: 1525

PAGE #: 215

REPRODUCTION DIMENSIONS: 11.25 X 8.75 IN

HISTORY/DESCRIPTION: THIS BEAUTIFUL MANUSCRIPT IS THE JOURNAL OF FERDINAND MAGELLAN’S VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD IN 1522. IT WAS WRITTEN BY ANTIONIO PIGAFETTA. IT IS DIVIDED INTO 57 NUMBERED CHAPTERS AND INCLUDED MAPS, NOTES AND PORTIONS ABOUT WHAT DAILY LIFE WAS ALONG THE VOYAGE. THIS IS THE FINEST OF THE FOUR SURVIVING MANUSCRIPTS PENNED BY THE FOUR WITNESSES TO THE FOREVER LOST ORIGINAL TEXTS.

ANTONIO PIGAFETTA WAS AN ITALIAN SCHOLAR AND EXPLORER. HE JOINED THE EXPEDITION TO THE SPICE ISLANDS LED BY MAGELLAN UNDER THE FLAG OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. DURING THIS EXPEDITION HE SERVED AS MAGELLAN'S ASSISTANT AND KEPT AN ACCURATE JOURNAL WHICH 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 SEBASTIAN ELCANO, OUT OF THE APPROXIMATELY 240 WHO SET OUT THREE YEARS EARLIER. THESE ME COMPLETED THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD. OTHERS MUTINIED AND RETURNED ON 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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