Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer.

He 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.
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. Others mutinied and returned in the first
year. 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.

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.
It is probably the first global book in history that described the Magellan
voyage, but it is also an extraordinary record of traditions, customs and
cultural and linguistic features of populations all over the world that were
unknown until that moment.

SOURCES:

https://thediplomat.com/2019/05/considering-history-and-narratives-as-spain-and-the-philippines

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/antonio-pigafetta/m048qc5?hl=en

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/magellan-discovery-philippines-