Antonio Pigafetta's First

Voyage Around the World

WORLD EXPLORATION
• SPAIN
• CIRCUMNAVIGATION
• PORTUGAL
• FRANCE
• KING AND QUEEN
• EXPEDITION
• TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
• LINE OF DEMARCATION
EUROPEAN BELIEFS ABOUT WORLD
• THE WORLD IS FLAT

• Treaty of Tordesillas
The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas neatly divided the "New World"
into land, resources, and people claimed by Spain and Portugal.
The red vertical line cutting through eastern Brazil represents the
divide. The treaty worked out well for the Spanish and
Portuguese empires, but less so for the 50 million people already
living in established communities in the Americas.
• The Line of Demarcation was one specific
line drawn along a meridian in the Atlantic
Ocean as part of the Treaty of Tordesillas in
1494 to divide new lands claimed by
Portugal from those of Spain. This line was
drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus
returned from his maiden voyage to the
Americas.
The First Voyage around
the World (1519-1522): Antonio Pigafetta
An Account of was an Venetian scholar and explorer. He
Magellan's Expedition joined the expedition to the Spice Islands
led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under
the flag of the emperor Charles V and
after Magellan's death in the Philippine
Islands, 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.
 Ferdinand Magellan
was a Portuguese explorer and a subject of the
Hispanic Monarchy from 1518. He is best
known for having planned and led the 1519
Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the
Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route,
during which he discovered the interoceanic
passage bearing thereafter his name and
achieved the first European navigation from the
Atlantic to Asia.
TRIVIA
• SPAIN SUPPORTED THE CLAIMS OF
EXPLORATION WRITTEN IN THE
JOURNAL OF ANTONIO PIGAFETA.
THERE IS VARIOUS BELIEFS THAT
SUPPORTS DIFFERENT CLAIMS ABOUT
THE WORLD BUT THE EXPEDITION
STARTED BY MAGELLAN IS THE ONLY
ONE WHO SEEN LOGICAL AND
REASONABLE.
 Content of the Journal
On September 8, 1522, the crew of the Victoria cast anchor in the waters off of Seville,
Spain, having just completed the first circumnavigation of the world. On board was
Antonio Pigafetta, a young Italian nobleman who had joined the expedition three years
before, and served as an assistant to Ferdinand Magellan en route to the Molucca
Islands. Magellan was dead. The rest of the fleet was gone: the Santiago shipwrecked,
the San Antonio overtaken, the Concepcion burned and the Trinidad abandoned. Of
the 237 sailors who departed from Seville, eighteen returned on the Victoria. Pigafetta
had managed to survive, along with his journal—notes that detailed the discovery of the
western route to the Moluccas. And along the way, new land, new peoples: on the far side
of the Pacific, the fleet had stumbled across the Marianas archipelago, and some three
hundred leagues further west, the Philippines.
Why is Antonio Pigafetta important to
Philippine history?

Pigafetta's work is important not only as

a source of information about the
voyage itself, but also includes an early
Western description of the people and
languages of the Philippines. Of the
approximately 240 men who set out with
Magellan, Pigafetta was one of only 18
who returned to Spain.
 What did Antonio Pigafetta
discover?
Pigafetta had managed to survive, along with his journal—
notes that detailed the discovery of the western route to
the Moluccas. And along the way, new land, new peoples:
on the far side of the Pacific, the fleet had stumbled across
the Marianas archipelago, and some three hundred leagues
further west, the Philippines
 What is the primary reason for Antonio
Pigafetta in writing the document?
It opened doors in the
places where they passed,
Antonio Pigafetta's where people, ideas and
primary reason in goods were coming and
going. It established
writing the
commercial contacts
document is to between East and West
discover and learn that remained for
centuries. Also, it promoted
more about the the exchange of multiple
world. sorts of experiences
(scientific, cultural,
religious...).
What is the contribution of
first voyage around the
world in Philippine history?
It helped us understand how Filipinos
lived in the past and how they dealt
with Magellan and his men when they
arrived in the Philippines.