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Antonio Pigaffeta First Voyage Around The World

Antonio Pigafetta's journal from the first voyage around the world provides a first-hand account of the expedition. The journal details initial contact with indigenous people in the Marianas that turned violent when locals stole supplies from the ships and the exhausted crew retaliated by burning houses and killing men. It also describes the crew's time exploring the Philippines where they observed the local people and environment before capturing Filipino pilots to guide them to the Moluccas in search of spices. The journal serves as an important historical record of one of the first global circumnavigations and interactions between Europeans and peoples in newly encountered lands.

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Antonio Pigaffeta First Voyage Around The World

Antonio Pigafetta's journal from the first voyage around the world provides a first-hand account of the expedition. The journal details initial contact with indigenous people in the Marianas that turned violent when locals stole supplies from the ships and the exhausted crew retaliated by burning houses and killing men. It also describes the crew's time exploring the Philippines where they observed the local people and environment before capturing Filipino pilots to guide them to the Moluccas in search of spices. The journal serves as an important historical record of one of the first global circumnavigations and interactions between Europeans and peoples in newly encountered lands.

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Antonio Pigafetta 1 voyage

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Around The World


PRESENTED BY:

 FRANCIS DOMINIQUE E. ARANGO


 RONALYN DELUYAS
Outline Of The Presetation

 Background of the Author


 Historical Background of the Document
 Summary
 Sequencing of events in Magellan's Expedition and
content presentation
 Significance and Relevance
 Learning Experience
Background of the Author

Antonio Pigafetta
Around 1491
Born
Vicenza, Republic of
Venice(now Italy)
Died Around 1534 (aged 39–40)

Residence Republic of Venice


Italian
Nationality
Antonio Pigafetta (ca.1490-ca. 1534)

Famous Italian traveller born in


Vicenza around 1490 and died in the
same city in 1534, who is also known
by the name of Antonio Lombardo or
Francisco Antonio Pigafetta.
Historical Background of the document
 The first voyage around the world was wriiten on
ITALY
 Wroted on 1523
 Published The translated English version on 1819
 Pigafetta’s journal became the basis for his 1525
travelogue, The First Voyage Around the World.
According to scholar Theodore Cachey Jr., the
travelogue represented “the literary epitome of its
genre” and achieved an international reputation
(Cachey, xii-xiii). One of Pigafetta’s patrons, Francesco
Chiericati, called the journal “a divine thing” (xl), and
Shakespeare himself seems to have been inspired by
work: Setebos, a deity invoked in Pigafetta’s text by me
SUMMARY
In First Voyage is great gulf between what Pigafetta sees and
what Pigafetta knows. I grew up, in the Marianas, hearing
about this gulf. It is part of why travel writing can be so
fraught for me now. On reaching the Marianas after nearly
four months at sea with no new provisions,"The captain-
general wished to stop at the large island and get some fresh
food, but he was unable to do so because the inhabitants of that
island entered the ships and stole whatever they could lay their
hands on, in such a manner that we could not defend
ourselves." (27). The sailors did not understand that this was
custom, that for the islanders, property was communal and
visitors were expected to share what they had.
 So in that first moment of contact, Magellan and his starving crew
retaliated. They went ashore and burned, by Pigafetta's account,
forty to fifty houses. They killed seven men. Mutual astonishment
at the new and the wondrous took a dark turn:
 “When we wounded any of those people with our crossbow shafts,
which passed completely through their loins from one side to the
other, they, looking at it, pulled on the shaft now on this and now
on that side, and then drew it out, with great astonishment, and so
died; others who were wounded in the breast did the same, which
moved us to great compassion.
 The captain had his right leg pierced by a poisoned arrow,
on which account he gave orders to retreat by degrees; but
almost all our men took to precipitate flight, so that there
remained hardly six or eight of us with him. We were
oppressed by the lances and stones which the enemy hurled
at us, and we could make no more resistance.
 [...] We saw some women in their boats who were crying out
and tearing their hair, for love, I believe, of their dead.”(27)
From the Marianas, the fleet moved on to the Philippines. They linger there, exploring the
land, exchanging gifts with the chiefs, observing the people. And I know what's coming for
the people; I know that we're seeing, through Pigafetta, the hush of a world just before it
changes, wholly and entirely. And there is Pigafetta, marveling, at the coconuts and the
bananas and the naked, beautiful people. It's happening even now in the text, as the
Filipino pilots are captured to direct the way to the Moluccas, the way to the spices. There
is Pigafetta, roaming and cataloging and recording, caught up in the first flush of a new
world, and as I read I can start to hear my father describing his country, wondering at it,
my father traveling as a young man up and down Luzon, across the sea to the Visayas,
across the sea to Mindanao. I can hear the ardor and the sadness and the terror and the
delight. I can hear the wonder. I can feel the pulse to move.
Sources:
Pigafetta, Antonio. The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of
Magellan’s Expedition. Ed. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2007.
History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents. Ed. Rodrigue Levesque. vol. 1:
European Discovery, 1521-1560. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1994.
Rogers, Robert. Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i
Press, 1995.
Sequencing of events in
Magellan's Expedition
and
content presentation
Significance
and Relevance
Learning
Experience
 In the group first we learned how to cooperate with each other
 We learned things about the magellans expedition and what its significance
 We learned that Mr. Pigaffeta is a very good in writing travelogue
 we also acknowledge the Magellan's expedition that gives significance and massive
contribution in us Filipinos. Especially the Christianism.
 We also learned about the book was even it was for us a what we called fiction there is a
possibility that on that time they are many un explained creatures living.
 Reading the history just like this is very overwhelming and making you imagine how
was the people and the life of that particular event or time was.
 The book of Pigaffeta was for me when reading it is very mysterious and like a fantasy ,
a feeling that it is unbelievable but when it comes to history and after reading the book it
is like all facts and legit .
THANK YOU

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