A Brief

Summary of
the First
Voyage
Around the
World by
Magellan
by Antonio
Pigafetta
This book was taken
from the chronicles of
contemporary
voyagers and
navigators of the
sixteenth
century.One of them 
was Italian noblema
n Antonio Pigafetta, 
who accompanied F
erdinand Magellan i
n his fatefulcircumna
vigation of the world.
Pigafetta's work
instantly became a
classic that prominent
literary men in the
West likeWilliam
Shakespeare, Michel
de Montaigne, and
Giambattista Vico
referred to the book in
their interpretation of
theNew World.
Pigafetta's
travelogue is one of
the most important
primary sources in
the study of the
precolonialPhilippines
. His account was
also a major referent
to the events leading
to Magellan's arrival
in the Philippines,
hisencounter with
local leaders, his
death in the hands of
Lapulapu's forces in
the Battle of Mactan,
and in the departureof
what was left of
Magellan's fleet from
the islands