20th of October 1518
[This portion is undated, serving as prologue to the actual commencement of the voyage on August 10, 1519] [1] Antonio Pigafetta, patrician of Vicenza and… Read More »20th of October 1518
Antonio Pigafetta
Antonio Pigafetta (1491 — 1534), Italian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan's 1519-1522 expedition.
10th of August, 1519
[7] On Monday morning, 10 August, St Lawrence’s day, in the abovesaid year, the fleet, having been supplied with all the things nec- essary for… Read More »10th of August, 1519
20th-26th of September, 1519
[9] We left that village called Sanlúcar on Tuesday, 20 September, of the same year, and took a southwest course, and on the twenty-sixth of… Read More »20th-26th of September, 1519
3rd of October, 1519
[11] At midnight on Monday, 3 October, the sails were trimmed toward the south, and we took to the open Ocean Sea, passing between Cape… Read More »3rd of October, 1519
13th of December, 1519
[15] After we had passed the equinoctial line going south, we lost the North Star, and hence we sailed south-south-west until [we reached] a land… Read More »13th of December, 1519
26th of December, 1519
[23] We remained in that land for thirteen days. Then proceeding on our way, we went as far as thirty-four and one-third degrees toward the… Read More »26th of December, 1519
31st of March, 1520
[25] Leaving there, we finally reached forty-nine and one-half degrees toward the Antarctic Pole. Since it was winter, the ships entered a safe port to… Read More »31st of March, 1520
24th of August, 1520
[33] Departing from there, we found, in fifty-one degrees less one-third degree, toward the Antarctic Pole, a river of fresh water in which the ships… Read More »24th of August, 1520
21st of October, 1520
[34] Upon reaching fifty-two degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, we discovered most miraculously a strait on the day of the [Feast of the] Eleven Thousand… Read More »21st of October, 1520