Almost all of what is currently known about the first circumnavigation of the world, one of mankind’s greatest achievements, is from the writings of Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian born explorer who ...

In 1982, upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez delivered an eloquent acceptance speech before a largely European audience. I will quote from this ...

MORE than 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet arrived on the island of Homonhon, located in present-day Guiuan, Eastern Samar, two years after departing Seville. Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine ...

This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand Magellan’s Expedition. First published in 1525, this travelogue was written by ...

When my freshman students read Antonio Pigafetta’s account of the Magellan expedition in the Philippines, many are surprised that Magellan was killed by a group of angry Mactan warriors. Some ask, ...

Owing to a misreading of Antonio Pigafetta's chronicles of the Magellanic sojourn in Mindanao in 1521, this seriously garbled narrative became predominant in Europe for almost 300 years - that the ...