Carl Amoretti was an Encyclopedist whose mind

encompassed theology, physics, geology, paleography, geography, and art history. He translated
scientific works, published or republished many rare books and manuscripts noteworthy of these
being the extant codex of Antonio Pigafetta's relation of the first circumnavigation of the world
by Ferdinand Magellan's fleet.

Amoretti, having fallen from the graces of the ecclesiastical order at Parma, was forced to relocate
to Milan around 1771. Here he became an active member of the scientific community. He was editor
of the first scientific magazine published in Milan under the title—from 1775 until 1777--Scelta di
opuscoli interessanti tradotti da varie lingue renamed in 1778 Opuscoli scelti until 1803, and further
renamed in 1804 as Nuovi opusculi scelti.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Amoretti
GINES DE MAFRA
Armed with the insight from De Mafra's information, a team of archaeologists led by a
geomorphologist went to work to validate the theory Mazaua is in 9°N. In January 2001, an
incredible discovery met the earth scientists: the geo-political entities composed of Pinamanculan
and Bancasi inside Butuan in northern Mindanao was in fact an island. From that point on the
archaeologists went to work to find artefacts that would identify the isle as the port of Magellan. Age
of contact ceramics, disarticulated human bones have been found that show the isle was inhabited
before the Spanish arrival. Corroded iron, metal bracelets, and a brass pestle have been dug up that
however have yet to be dated. The excavation was done in places outside the suspected village
where the indigenous tribes of Mazaua had lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin%C3%A9s_de_Mafra

MAZAUA
Dimasaua, also spelled Dimasawa and Dimasava, was the invented name created by 17th-century
Spanish missionary Fr. Francisco Colín, S.J., pointing to a tiny isle in southern Leyte whose chief,
according to Colín, "gave the most signal service" to Ferdinand Magellan and his crew at the port
of Butuan in March–April 1521.
The incident is described in a three-paragraph epitome of Magellan's sojourn in Philippine waters,
part of a historical study entitled Labor evangelica obreros de la compañia de Jesus en las islas
Filipinas, which was published 1663 in Madrid.
The Ramusio translation is a hopelessly garbled story of the above incident. In the authentic account
of Pigafetta, the port was not Butuan, which was and is not an island, but an island named Mazaua,
pronounced "masawa", a word found only in Butuanon and a derivative language, Tausog, and in no
other of over 200 Philippine languages and dialects.
In Ramusio's corrupted story Magellan and his crew celebrated a mass at Butuan on Easter Sunday,
March 31, 1521. They also planted a big cross atop the tallest hill in the afternoon of the same day.
From Butuan, so Ramusio's story goes, they sailed for Cebu passing "Zeilon, Bohol, Messana..."
Tantalizingly, Ramusio then talks of the fleet being at "Messana" which was the name given
by Maximilianus Transylvanus in 1522 to Mazaua. "Messana" because of its familiarity to
Europeans—it's the name of the Italian port where the bubonic plague started—had for a long time
supplanted the true name, Mazaua, so that even as late as 1894 when the Italian scholar Andrea da
Mosto had expertly transcribed Pigafetta's Ambrosiana codex, which work fully established the text
of that manuscript that has essentially been adopted by succeeding historiographers, even then da
Mosto used Transylvanus' "Mazana."
The confused timeline of Ramusio's story has Magellan's fleet anchored from March 28-April 4, 1521
at Butuan. Then from Butuan, they sailed for Cebu but all of a sudden are found at "Messana" which
in the real story is "Mazaua" where the fleet did in fact anchor on those dates. But, as Ramusio
wrongly relates, the real port, Mazaua, is supplanted by Butuan, and Gatighan, the waystation,
supplanted by "Messana." It's important to remember this mix-up to have a clear view of which island
in the true story Colín's Dimasaua is pointing to.
The precise story, as told by Antonio Pigafetta and the other witnesses, is the fleet had anchored at
a tiny — about 3,930 hectares according to Ginés de Mafra - island-port named Mazaua which The
Genoese Pilot said was at latitude 9° north, locating the skerry in Mindanao. From Mazaua the
Armada sailed for Cebu in the Visayas in central Philippines passing first at a little island
called Gatighan. By tracing this route, we are able to determine that Colín's Dimasaua is actually
Pigafetta's "Gatighan."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimasaua

Francisco Combés (1620 – 1665) was a Spanish priest who established Christian monasteries in
the Philippines in the 17th century.
Combés wrote a book, Historia de las Islas de Mindanao, Iolo, y sus adyacentes ... (Madrid,
Herederos de Pablo de Val, 1667) that contains a three-paragraph section on the voyage of Fernão
de Magalhães (i.e. Ferdinand Magellan) in Philippine waters in March–April 1521. It talks of
Magellan and his fleet anchoring in Butuan and planting a cross at a mountain there. From Butuan,
Magellan and crew sail for Cebu making a brief stopover at an island named "Limasaua". Today,
Combés story is seen differently. Instead of anchoring at Butuan, Magellan's fleet is anchored at
Limasaua. A mass, which is not mentioned in Combes' story, is held at Limasaua. This phantom
mass is celebrated in the Philippines every year and the island Limasaua (now universally spelled
with a w in place of u, "Limasawa") is known as the site of the "First mass in the Philippines".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Comb%C3%A9s