Content and Contextual Analysis of Sources

• Antonio Pigafetta

  • An Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice
  • He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of King Charles I of Spain and, after Magellan's death in the Philippines, the subsequent voyage around the world.
  • During the expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant and kept an accurate journal which later assisted him in translating the Cebuano language. It is the first recorded document concerning the language
• Juan de Plasencia

  • A Spanish friar of the Franciscan Order.
  • He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines, where he founded numerous towns in Luzon and authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine), the first book ever printed in the Philippine