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ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

• BORN SOME TIME IN THE CLOSING YEAR OF THE 15

TH
CENTURY.

• PARENTS: GIOVANNI PIGAFETTA AND ANGELA ZOGA

• WAS A NATIVE OF VICENZA (VENICE)
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

• WAS A VENETIAN SCHOLAR AND EXPLORER.

• JOINED THE EXPEDITION LED BY FERDINAND MAGELLAN.

• HE IS ALSO MAGELLAN’S TRUSTED ASSISTANT;

ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• STUDIED ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, AND CARTOGRAPHY

• HIS ORIGINAL DIARY WAS LOST, AND IS NOT KNOWN IN WHAT LANGUAGE IT WAS WRITTEN.

• HIS JOURNAL IS THE ONLY KNOWN DOCUMENT ABOUT LAPU-LAPU’S LIFE.

• CONTAINS THE FIRST VOCABULARY OF VISAYAN WORDS EVER PENNED BY A EUROPEAN.

ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• HE SERVED ON BOARD THE GALLEYS OF THE KNIGHTS OF RHODES, AND ACCOMPANIED PAPALNUNCIO,
MONSIGNOR CHIEREGATI, TO SPAIN.

• JOINED THE PORTUGUESE CAPTAIN FERDINAND MAGELLAN AND HIS SPANISH CREW ON THEIR TRIPTO
THE MALUKU ISLANDS.

• WHILE IN THE PHILIPPINES MAGELLAN WAS KILLED, AND PIGAFETTA WAS INJURED. NEVERTHELESS, HE
RECOVERED.
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

• HE WAS ONE OF THE 18 OF MAGELLAN’S ORIGINAL CREW WHO, HAVING COMPLETED THE FIRST
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD, RETURNED TO SPAIN ON BOARD ANOTHER VESSEL, THE VICTORIA.

• HE KEPT A DETAILED AND COMPREHENSIVE JOURNAL OF HIS JOURNEY WITH FERDINAND MAGELLAN.
• IS ALSO KNOWN AS ANTONIO LOMBARDO
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
• A PORTUGUESE EXPLORER WORKING ON BEHALF OF SPAIN.
• LED THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION AROUND THE WORLD.
• THE 5 SHIPS THEY USED ARE:
• TRINIDAD
• SAN ANTONIO
THE SHIPS THAT REACHED PHILIPPINES
• CONCEPTION
• VICTORIA (SURVIVING SHIP THAT RETURNED BACK TO SEVILLE)
• SANTIAGO
CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
• SPICES WERE IN-DEMAND COMMODITIES AMONG THE EUROPEANS BECAUSE OF ITS NUMEROUS
BENEFITS SUCH AS FOOD PRESERVATION, FLAVOR ENHANCEMENT, AND MEDICINE.

• TREATY OF TORDESILLAS WAS EFFECTIVE AT THAT TIME., IT IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN SPAIN AND
PORTUGAL AIMED AT SETTLING CONFLICTS OVER LANDS NEWLY DISCOVERED OR EXPLORED BY
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

• IN SEARCH FOR SPICES, THE SPANIARDS FINANCED MAGELLAN’S PLAN TO GO TO EAST VIA A WESTWARD
DIRECTION AFTER HIS PLAN WAS TURNED DOWN BY PORTUGAL.
CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
• THROUGH GOING WESTWARD, THE TREATY BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL WAS NOT VIOLATED.
• FIVE BOATS WERE GIVEN TO MAGELLAN BUT ONLY ONE REMAINED AFTER THE EXPEDITION, VICTORIA.
• OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXPEDITION, THERE WERE ONLY
EIGHTEEN SURVIVORS INCLUDING ANTONIO PIGAFETTA WHO KEPT A JOURNAL ABOUT THE JOURNEY .
TIME, PLACE, SITUATION AT THE TIME SOURCE WAS
WRITTEN/MADE

• THE VOYAGE VIA WESTWARD TO SPICE (MALUKU) ISLANDS TOOK PLACE IN THE EARLY 16THCENTURY.
• THEIR ASSIGNMENT WAS TO REACH THE SPICE ISLANDS, THEREBY PROVING THEY BELONGED TO SPAIN.
• ●THE ISSUE BETWEEN ISLAM VS CHRISTIANITY WAS STILL PRESENT AT THE TIME. THERE WAS ONE
SCENE IN THE ACCOUNT OF PIGAFETTA WHERE MAGELLAN EXPLICITLY ASKED THE NATIVES IF THEIR
RELIGION WERE ISLAM, AS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARDER TO CONVERT THEM
CONTENT ANALYSIS

• ANTONIO PIGAFFETA’S JOURNAL ABOUT THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF

FERDINAND MAGELLAN AROUND THE WORLD AND INTO THE PHILIPPINES
PROVIDES HISTORICAL INFORMATION AND EVIDENCES THAT THE WORLD IS NOT
FLAT DURING THEIR VOYAGE.

• THEIR TEAM WAS ABLE TO REACH THE HOMONHON TOGETHER WITH THE
REMAINING 150 MEMBERS OF HIS FLEET.
CONTENT ANALYSIS
• MAGELLAN AND HIS CREW BECAME THE FIRST SPANIARDS TO REACHED THE PHILIPPINES.
• HOMONHON AND LIMASAWA STREETS REFER TO THE SITE OF MAGELLAN’S FIRST LANDING
IN SAMAR AND THE SITE OF THE FIRST ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS IN LEYTE.

• RAJAH SIAUI OF MAZAUA ACCOMPANIED MAGELLAN TO CEBU. RAJAH HUMABON AND

MAGELLAN BECAME FRIENDS.

• TOGETHER WITH THE RAJAH’S WIFE, THEY WERE BAPTIZED AS CHRISTIANS. MAGELLAN
HAD WISHED TO CONVERT LAPU-LAPU OF THE NEARBY ISLAND MACTAN TO
CHRISTIANITY.

• THE LATTER HOWEVER DISMISSED THE PROPOSAL.

CONTENT ANALYSIS
• MAGALLANES AND LAPU-LAPU ARE THE MAJOR ARTERIES IN MAGALLANES
VILLAGE, FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.

• HUMABON REMINDS US OF THE RULER OF CEBU WHO CONVERTED TO

CHRISTIANITY, AND STRATEGICALLY INVOLVED THE NAÏVE MAGELLAN IN A
LOCAL POLITICAL PROBLEM AGAINST THE RULER OF MACTAN, RESULTING IN
MAGELLAN’S TRAGIC AND USELESS END.
TIMELINE (1519)
• 1519: DEPARTURE FROM SEVILLE
• SEPTEMBER 20: DEPARTURE FROM SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA.
• SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 3: STOPPING IN THE CANARY ISLANDS TO TAKE IN PROVISIONS.
• NOVEMBER 29: FLEET REACHES THE VICINITY OF CAPE ST. AUGUSTINE.
• DECEMBER 13: ENTERING THE BAY OF RIO DE JANEIRO.
• DECEMBER 27: DEPARTURE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO.
TIMELINE (1520)
• FEBRUARY 27: ENTERING BAHIA DE LOS PATOS.
• MARCH 31: BEGINNING OF THE OVERWINTERING STAY AT PUERTO SAN JULIÁN.
• APRIL 1 AND 2: MUTINY ON VICTORIA, CONCEPCION AND SAN ANTONIO; DEATH OF LOUIS DE MENDOZA.
LATER EXECUTION OF DE QUESADA, MAROONING OF DE CARTAGENA. ALVARO DE MESQUITA BECOMES
CAPTAIN OF SAN ANTONIO, DUARTE BARBOSA OF VICTORIA.

• END OF APRIL: SANTIAGO IS SENT ON A MISSION TO FIND THE PASSAGE. THE SHIP IS CAUGHT IN A STORM
AND WRECKED. SURVIVORS RETURN TO PUERTO SAN JULIÁN. SERRANO (JOÃO SERRÃO) BECOMES
CAPTAIN OF THE CONCEPCION.
TIMELINE
• AUGUST 23 OR 24: FLEET DEPARTS PUERTO SAN JULIÁN FOR RÍO SANTA CRUZ.
• OCTOBER 18: FLEET LEAVES SANTA CRUZ.
• OCTOBER 21: ARRIVING AT THE CAPE OF THE ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS. ENTRY TO WHAT WOULD BE
KNOWN AS STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.

• END OF OCTOBER: SAN ANTONIO, CHARGED TO EXPLORE MAGDALEN SOUND, FAILS TO RETURN TO THE
FLEET, INSTEAD SAILS BACK TO SPAIN UNDER ESTÊVÃO GOMES WHO IMPRISONED CAPTAIN DE
MESQUITA. THE SHIP ARRIVES IN SPAIN ON MAY 21, 1521.

• NOVEMBER 28: THE FLEET LEAVES THE STRAIT AND ENTERS THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
• WHEN OUT IN THE PACIFIC SOME OF THE CREW GET SCURVY.
TIMELINE (1521)
• JANUARY 24/25-28: LANDFALL ON AN UNINHABITED ISLAND, WHICH MAGELLAN NAMES ST PAUL'S
(PROBABLY PUKA-PUKA). THEY STAY FOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE CONTINUING ON.

• MARCH 6: ARRIVAL AT GUAM AND ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CHAMORRO PEOPLE.

• MARCH 16: ARRIVAL OF MAGELLAN'S EXPEDITION TO ONE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. THEY HEADED TO
SULUAN AND DROPPED ANCHOR FOR A FEW HOURS OF RESPITE. SULUAN IS A SMALL ISLAND IN THE PROVINCE
OF EASTERN SAMAR. THEY NEXT DROPPED ANCHOR AT HOMONHON, ANOTHER SMALL ISLAND IN THE
PROVINCE OF EASTERN SAMAR. THEY WERE DETECTED BY THE BOATS OF RAJAH KOLAMBU WHO WAS
VISITING MAZAUA, WHO LATER GUIDED THEM TO CEBU, ON APRIL 7.

• MARCH 31: FIRST MASS IN THE PHILIPPINES, HELD IN MAZAUA, WHICH IS NOT DETERMINED WHETHER IT WAS
HELD IN MAZAUA, SOUTHERN LEYTE OR MASAO, CARAGA, MINDANAO OR IN BUTUAN, AGUSAN DEL NORTE.
TIMELINE
• JANUARY 25: VICTORIA REACHES TIMOR AND STARTS TO CROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN.
• APRIL 6: TRINIDAD UNDER THE COMMAND OF ESPINOSA LEAVES THE MOLUCCAS HEADING HOME SAILING
EAST. AFTER FIVE WEEKS, ESPINOSA DECIDES TO RETURN TO THE MOLUCCAS WHERE HE AND HIS SHIP
ARE CAPTURED BY A PORTUGUESE FLEET UNDER ANTONIO DE BRITO. HOWEVER, THE SHIP WAS WRECKED
DURING A STORM.

• MAY 22: VICTORIA PASSES THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND ENTERS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

• JULY 9: VICTORIA REACHES SANTIAGO, CAPE VERDE.
• SEPTEMBER 6: VICTORIA RETURNS TO SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA UNDER THE COMMAND OF ELCANO,
TWO WEEKS SHY OF THREE YEARS AFTER SETTING SAIL.

• SEPTEMBER 8: VICTORIA ARRIVES AT SEVILLE, TECHNICALLY COMPLETING THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION.

CONCLUSION
• THE LEGITIMACY OF PIGAFETTA’S JOURNAL IS STILL QUESTIONABLE.
• FERDINAND MAGELLAN DID NOT COMPLETE THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION.
• THE WORLD IS NOT FLAT.
• LAPU-LAPU WAS NOT THE ONE WHO KILLED MAGELLAN.
• THE MAIN MISSION (EXPLORATION OF EXOTIC SPICES) WAS SABOTAGED BECAUSE OF MUTINIES AND
THREATS.

• 1 SHIP OUT OF 5 MADE IT BACK TO SEVILLE.

CONCLUSION

• PIGAFETTA’S JOURNAL IS A VITAL PIECE NOT ONLY OF PHILIPPINE HISTORY BUT ALSO OF WORLD
HISTORY.
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