Antonio Pigafetta
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Antonio Pigafetta was a Venetian scholar and explorer. In 1519, he joined the Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the world's first documented circum
Nao Victoria, Magellan's boat Replica in Punta Arenas
Casa Pigafetta, the family palace in Vicenza.
Statue of Antonio Pigafetta in Vicenza
Commemorative plaque placed in Cebu City, Philippines on the 500th anniversary of Magellan's and Pigafetta's arrival
Juan Sebastián Elcano
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Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Sp
Antonio Pigafetta
…recorded document concerning the language. Pigafetta was one of the 18 men who made the complete trip, returning to Spain in 1522, under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, out of the approximately 240 who set out three years earlier. These men completed the first circumnavigation of the world while others mutinied and…
Juan Sebastián Elcano, in a 19th-century anonymous portrait
Modern engraving of Elcano, c. 1854
House where Elcano is said to have been born. Although there is presently a plaque there that alleges such, it is unlikely.