CEBU—Had it not been for Antonio Pigafetta, the ethnographer, people would know very little about explorer Ferdinand Magellan and the world’s first successful circumnavigation. Pigafetta’s keen ...
MORE than 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet arrived on the island of Homonhon, located in present-day Guiuan, Eastern Samar, two years after departing Seville. Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine ...
Antonio Pigafetta’s account of the first voyage around the world with Ferdinand Magellan has provided me with hours and hours of fun. Now that Yale University has made their French illuminated ...
When my freshman students read Antonio Pigafetta’s account of the Magellan expedition in the Philippines, many are surprised that Magellan was killed by a group of angry Mactan warriors. Some ask, ...
The first work in this volume is the translation of Primo viaggio intorno al globo terracqueo, based on the original text of the Ambrosian codex translated by James A. Robertson, reproduced with ...
ON April 13, 2021, the eve of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines (through the First Baptism in Cebu)*, we gathered in front of the monument to Antonio Pigafetta in ...
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