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 antonio pigafetta
antonio pigafetta

antonio pigafetta -lrb- ; c. 1491 -- c. 1531 -rrb- was an italian scholar and explorer from the republic of venice .
he traveled with the portuguese explorer ferdinand magellan and his crew by order of the king charles i of spain on their voyage to the indies for spices .
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 this language .
pigafetta was one of the 18 men who returned to spain in 1522 , out of the approximately 240 who set out three years earlier .
the voyage completed the first circumnavigation of the world ; juan sebastián elcano served as captain after magellan 's death .
pigafetta 's journal is the source for much of what we know 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 .
