M3 - Pigafetta's First Voyage Around the World

• Author of First Voyage Around the World

  Antonio Pigafetta
• Antonio Pigafetta was born to a wealthy Vicenza family in 1491, in the province of Vicenza, Italy
• He is a chronicler that writes accounts of important or historical events

  Antonio Pigafetta
• James Robertson translated the Italian version into English, “Magellan’s Voyage Round the World”
• The first circumnavigation of the world began in 1519 and ended in 1522.
• Name of the Spanish Fleet is “Armada de Molucca” composed with 5 ships.
• • Trinidad, Ferdinand Magellan
  • San Antonio, Juan de Cartegeña
  • Concepcion, Gaspar Quesada
  • Santiago, Juan Rodriguez Serrana
  • Victoria, Luis de Mendoza
• After Magellan’s death on the island of Mactan in PH on April 27, 1521, Juan Sebastian Elcano took command of the expedition
• At the end of the voyage, Antonio Pigafetta was on board on Victoria which was the only ship able to return to Spain
• Battle of Mactan


  April 27, 1521
• Spaniards burned and destructed indigenous literature and documents to easily conquer the Philippines.