Antonio Pigafetta

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Antonio Pigafetta

Best known for the vivid journal of Magellan’s expedition, this Venetian traveler left one of the most important firsthand accounts of the first circumnavigation of the globe. His writing brings the dangers, encounters, and wonder of early ocean exploration to life.

3 Audiobooks

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

by Antonio Pigafetta

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

by Antonio Pigafetta

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

by Antonio Pigafetta

About the author

Born in Vicenza around 1491, Antonio Pigafetta was a Venetian scholar, explorer, and writer. He is remembered above all for joining Ferdinand Magellan’s 1519 expedition to the Spice Islands and for keeping a detailed record of the voyage.

Pigafetta sailed on the journey that became the first circumnavigation of the world, surviving hardships that included mutiny, hunger, storms, and battle. After Magellan’s death in the Philippines in 1521, the expedition continued under new leadership, and Pigafetta’s notes became one of the clearest surviving eyewitness accounts of the entire voyage.

His narrative is valued not just as an adventure story, but as an important historical source on navigation, geography, and cross-cultural encounters in the early 1500s. For many readers, Pigafetta’s work remains the most human window into a world-changing expedition.