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Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1531) was an Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice. He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of King Charles I of Spain and, after Magellan's death in the Philippines, 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. Pigafetta was one of the 18 men who returned 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. Pigafetta's surviving journal is the source for much of what is known about Magellan and Elcano's voyage. At least one warship of the Italian Navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, was named after him in 1931. Source: [Antonio Pigafetta]( on Wikipedia.

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Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo

Antonio Pigafetta

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Con la edición de la Relación del Primer viaje alrededor del Mundo. Noticias del Mundo Nuevo con las figuras de los países que se descubrieron señalados por Antonio Pigafetta. Vicentino. Caballero de Rodas, el lector está ante un libro de aventuras, que contiene la auténtica vivida por los los que lograron dar la vuelta a la tierra. Es mejor copiar a Ramusio que glosar sus palabras: «El viaje relaizado por los españoles alrededor del mundo es una de las cosas más grandes y maravillosas que se han oído en nuestros tiempos; y aunque superamos en muchas cosas a los antiguos ésta superaría en gran medida, todas las que hasta este tiempo han sido halladas». Para esta edición se ha utilizado el texto de la Relación, preparado por Camillo Manfroni, traducido del italiano por F. Ros y con estudio introductorio y notas aclaratorias del prof. Bartolomé Escandell Bonet, Bibliotheca Indiana, Tomo I, Editorial Aguilar, 1957. Se ha elegido reeditar la versión italiana de Camillo Manfroni por ser fiel al texto original del manuscrito de la Biblioteca Ambrosiana. El volumen cuenta con notas e introducción de su editor, el historiador español Leoncio Cabrero.

#70

Select documents illustrating the four voyages of Columbus

Christopher Columbus

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The journey of Coronado

George Parker Winship, Frederick Webb Hodge

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Following the equator

Mark Twain

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Following Twain's failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine he makes an attempt to extricate himself from huge debt by undertaking a tour of the British Empire, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in English. He documents his travels in this book.