THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD

Primo Viaggio Intorno Al Mondo

by ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
 Content
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

AGE OF DISCOVERY
AND EXPLORATION

THE CHRONICLER

THE FIRST
CIRCUMNAVIGATION

RELEVANCE

Source:https://www.history.com/topics/exploration
Age of Discovery and Exploration
• 15th century to the 18th century,
• Extensive overseas exploration emerge as a
powerful factor in European culture and
globalization.
• Factors:
• Crusade;
• Fall of Constantinople in 1453 in the hands of
Ottoman Turks – new trading route;
• Technological Advancement in sailing
(cartography, new boat designs, new
navigational tools) – Prince Henry the
Navigator
Age of Discovery and Exploration
• 15th century to the 18th century,
• Extensive overseas exploration emerge as a
powerful factor in European culture and
globalization.
• Factors:
• Travels of Marco Polo
• Spain vs. Portugal as world powers
• Objectives of Exploration: 3Gs
• GOD – spreading faith
• GOLD – riches
• GLORY – fame and supremacy
 THE AUTHOR: ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• (1491 – c.1534), born in Vicenza, Venice, Italy
• In younger years, worked in the ships owned by
the Knights of Rhodes;
• Studied ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, and
CARTOGRAPHY
• Biographers described him as well-educated
young man possessing an avid curiosity of the
world around him;
• When joined as part of the delegation of
Monsignor Francesco Chieregati and assigned
in Spain in 1519, knew about the spice trades
and the Magellan’s plan of exploration.
 THE AUTHOR: ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• Applied to join in Magellan’s Expedition,
presented his credentials to the Casa de la
Contratacion
• Admitted as one of the sobresalientes
(supernumeraries)
• Was among the 18 survivors who returned to
Spain on September 6, 1522
• Submitted a written report to his Majesty King
Carlos V before returning to Italy
• Only few accounts were taken about him after
the expedition;
About the Book: MAGELLAN’s VOYAGE
AROUND THE WORLD
• Pigafetta kept a journal of the expedition’s
happenings;
• Prepared a publication of his accounts;
presented the draft to Pope Clement VII,
Philippe de Villiers L’Isle-Adam and Louis of
Savoy for financial assistance, but got no
support
• 1536 – a condensed version of the manuscript
was published in Venice by Jacques Fabre;
• The Original manuscript did not survived;
• English Version – 1819 – James Alexander
Robertson – appeared in The Philippine Islands
opus (Vol. 33)
About the Book: MAGELLAN’s VOYAGE
AROUND THE WORLD
• The longest and most comprehensive primary
source about Magellan’s Expedition;
• Presented the individual fates of the five ships,
how they suffered from challenges (hunger,
hostility, diseases, confidence in Magellan’s
leadership)
• Includes maps, glossaries of native words,
geographic information of flora and fauna on
the places he visits
THE EXPLORER: FERDINAND MAGELLAN
• Name: Fernão de Magalhães (Portuguese);
Fernando de Magallanes (Spanish)
• Born: Sabrosa, Portugal
• Charge: King Charles I
• Flagship: Trinidad

Trivia
Magellan approached King Manuel of Portugal on 3
separate occasions to seek his support for a
westward voyage to the Spice Islands. The king
refused his petition repeatedly.
 THE EXPLORER: FEJUAN SEBASTIAN
ELCANO
• Born: Guetaria, Spain
• Charge: King Charles I
• Flagship: Victoria
• Known: Leading the second half of first
round-the-world navigation.

Trivia
Upon his return to Spain, the King presented him
with a coat of arms that contained a globe and the
phrase: Primus circumdedisti me (in Latin, "You went
around me first").
 THE FIRST HERO: LAPU LAPU
Name: Cilapulapu
Lapulapu
Known for: Chief of Mactan; First Filipino Hero

Trivia
According to a folk epic taken from the oral histories
of the region called the Aginid, Bayok sa atong
Tawarik, when Lapulapu arrived from Borneo
(Sabah), he asked Rajah Humabon for an area he and
his people could settle in.
 THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Date Event Location
Reached the isle of Samar
March 16, 1521
Zamal.
March 17, 1521 Landed on another Homonhon
uninhabited Island.
March 18, 1521 Natives came with a Homonhon
boat of nine men and (Humunu);
the chief; exchange of Acquad da li buoni
goods Segnialli (The
Watering-place of
Good Signs)
March 22, 1521 Natives came back,
bringing more goods
 THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Date Event Location
First Mass in Mazaua
March 31, 1521 Philippines; putting up
of cross
April 7, 1521 Reached Zubu; Zubu (Cebu)
accommodated by the
king
April 14, 1521 The King of Zubu and Zubu
others were baptized
as Christians;
Image of Child Jesus
gave to Queen
April 26, 1521 Zula asked Magellan to Zubu
fight Cilapulapu.
 THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Date Event Location
Battle happened in Matan
April 27, 1521 Matan; Magellan was
killed
May 1 1521 Humabon invites the Cebu
crew to a banquet.
Those who attended
are killed.
May 2, 1521 The fleet leaves Zubu.
--- Reached Mindanao
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Rolando Borinaga, Ph. D.
UP Manila
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
1 Pork a. Pork Stew
b. Broiled Pork
2 Green Vegetables
3 Taro root Known as Gabi
4 Fruits Mangosteen, Mango,
Papaya and Custard-
Apple
5 Fish Broiled or stewed
6 Other sea Mollusks
species
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Rolando Borinaga, Ph. D.
UP Manila
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
7 Palm wine Tuba
8 Figs/
Bananas
9 Coconut Lamaw-soft meat of
coconut
Butong-water only
10 Honey
11 Pomelo Perhaps sweet oranges
12 Ginger
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Rolando Borinaga, Ph. D.
UP Manila
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
13 Rice
14 Giant Bat
15 Goat meat
16 Chicken Could have been fried,
meat boiled or stewed
17 Turtle eggs
Local Cakes of rice and millet
delicacies Baked and Wrapped in
leaves
 RELEVANCE & Contribution to PH
History
Contributed on the European historiography;
• Gave way to the success of Magellan’s
exploration, which includes:
• Proving that the Earth is round;
• Demolished the myth that there is boiling
water in Equator;
• The first every circumnavigation
• There is a westward route going to
Moluccas
• Discovery of Max Pacifico (Pacific Ocean)
 RELEVANCE & Contribution to PH
History
Contributed on the Philippine Historiography;
• Contains important details about the
conditions of the Visayan Islands in the 16th
Century;
• Identification of early prominent leaders,
economic activities, social and cultural
practices, and religious beliefs;
• Source fd Early Christianism in PH;
• The First Mass, Rajah Humabon; the image of
Sto. Nino;
• Accounted the first recorded resistance
against Spanish Rule (Lapu lapu)
RELEVANCE & Contribution to PH
History
RELEVANCE & Contribution to PH
History
 OTHER Sources
Maximilianus De Moluccis Insulis (The Moluccas
Transylvanus Islands);
Interviews to crew members
including Elcano, Albo, Hernando de
Bustamante;
Shorter than Pigafetta’s work
Francisco Albo The shortest account; focused on
the location of expedition on
certain dates
Peter Martyr d’ Made an account of Spanish
Anghiera Exploration from 1511 to 1530; divided
into “decades”; Magellan’s explo 5th
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 Supplemental
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