Antonio Pigafetta

Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1531) is a Venetian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice.

He travels with the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew by order of the King Charles I of Spain on their voyage to the Indies for spices.

During the expedition, he serves as Magellan's assistant and keeps an accurate journal that later assists him in translating the Cebuano language.

It is the first recorded document concerning this language.

Pigafetta is one of the eighteen men who returns to Spain in 1522, out of the approximately two hundred and forty who set out three years earlier.

The voyage completes the first circumnavigation of the world; Juan Sebastián Elcano serves as captain after Magellan's death.

Pigafetta's journal is the source for much of what we know about Magellan and Elcano's voyage.

At least one warship of the Italian Navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, will be named after him in 1931.

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