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AFTERNOON
EVERYONE!
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“THE FIRST
VOYAGE
AROUND THE
WORLD BY
MAGELLAN” BY
ANTONIO
PIGAFETTA
-Ferdinand Magellan
-born in 1480 in
sobrosa, portugal
- Died in april 27
1521in mactan
-Portuguese
-Brilliant navigator This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
•famous Italian traveller born in Vicenza in
the year of 1490 and died in the year of 1534.
•Alias Antonio Lombrado or Francisco Antonio
Pigafetta.
•He became a great friendship with Magellan,
together with Juan Sebastian Elcano, that
venture to the Moluccas begun In August of
1519 and finished in September 1522
•Pigafetta's work instantly became a classic
that prominent Iiterary men in the West like
WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR. Pigafetta's travelogue
is one of the most important primary sources
in the study of the pre-colonial Philippines in
Pigafetta's account their fleet reached what
he called the LADRONES ISLANDS or the
"Islands of the Thieves.