In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, leading an expedition of five ships and over 270 men, set sail from Spain in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later, one ship returned to port with just 18 men. Magellan was not among the survivors, having been killed in the Philippines. But the remainder of his party, quite inadvertently, had been first to circumnavigate the world.
One of the survivors of the voyage was Antonio Pigafetta, a young Italian nobleman and volunteer member of the crew. His diligent and detailed accounting of the expedition is the fullest, most valuable narrative of the...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1874 volume contains an account of the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519 1522 by Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian member of Magellan's expedition. It also contains...

Primer viaje alrededor del mundo o Relacion de Pigafetta, es la fuente principal de informacion sobre el viaje y sus descubrimientos para el mundo occidental, ademas de la propia vida de Pigafetta. Por primera vez un europeo daba a conocer el estrecho de Magallanes, el Oceano Pacifico, la Patagonia o el primer documento disponible acerca del idioma cebuano, de Filipinas. Pigafetta fue uno de los 18 hombres, de 265 en la tripulacion inicial, que sobrevivieron a la expedicion."

Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo