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    Research Compilation On Pigafetta's Account

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    Pigafetta's account of the first voyage around the world provides valuable insights into 16th century Philippines. As the sole surviving eyewitness of Magellan's voyage and death in the Battle of Mactan, Pigafetta's travelogue is the longest and most comprehensive primary source on the expedition. It includes early descriptions of Philippine languages, peoples, and the political, economic, and social conditions of islands in the Visayas region at that time. Details from Pigafetta's account are still used today to understand events like the first Easter mass in the Philippines and the planting of a cross on Limasawa island.

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    Research Compilation On Pigafetta's Account

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    Pigafetta's account of the first voyage around the world provides valuable insights into 16th century Philippines. As the sole surviving eyewitness of Magellan's voyage and death in the Battle of Mactan, Pigafetta's travelogue is the longest and most comprehensive primary source on the expedition. It includes early descriptions of Philippine languages, peoples, and the political, economic, and social conditions of islands in the Visayas region at that time. Details from Pigafetta's account are still used today to understand events like the first Easter mass in the Philippines and the planting of a cross on Limasawa island.

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    Pigafetta's account of the first voyage around the world provides valuable insights into 16th century Philippines. As the sole surviving eyewitness of Magellan's voyage and death in the Battle of Mactan, Pigafetta's travelogue is the longest and most comprehensive primary source on the expedition. It includes early descriptions of Philippine languages, peoples, and the political, economic, and social conditions of islands in the Visayas region at that time. Details from Pigafetta's account are still used today to understand events like the first Easter mass in the Philippines and the planting of a cross on Limasawa island.

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    Research Compilation On Pigafetta's Account

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    This section will focus its’ discussion on the content and contextual analysis of selected primary

    sources; the identification of historical importance of the text; and the examination of the
    author’s main argument and point of view. First among the documents, the Pigafetta’s account
    on the first voyage around the world. A corrected version of the Battle of Mactan was also retold
    in the account where- it was an attempt of the Filipinos to repulse a foreign invader.

    It is the first recorded document concerning the language. Pigafetta was one of the 18 men
    who made the complete trip, returning to Spain in 1522, under the command of Juan Sebastián
    Elcano, out of the approximately 240 who set out three years earlier. These men completed the
    first circumnavigation of the world.

    Pigafetta was the diarist of the expedition of the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan (who at that
    time served the Spanish crown). ... Unfortunately for us, Pigafetta remains the sole reliable
    source of that historic battle.

    Pigafetta’s work is important not only as a source of information about the voyage itself,
    but also includes an early Western description of the people and languages of the
    Philippines. Of the approximately 240 men who set out with Magellan, Pigafetta was one of
    only 18 who returned to Spain. Magellan himself was killed, on April 27, 1521, in a battle on
    Mactan Island, the Philippines, which Pigafetta witnessed and recounts in this work.

    Ø Pigafetta’s account is the longest and most comprehensive of the four known primary sources
    Ø Pigafetta’s travelogue contributed immensely to the Philippine historiography, providing us a
    glimpse of the political, economic and social conditions of the islands in the Visayan region
    during the 16th century.
    Ø With the help of Magellan’s slave/Interpreter, Enrique de Malacca, he got all the information,
    including the account of Magellan’s death in the Battle of Mactan

    Pigafetta’s eyewitness account is the “most detailed and only surviving account” of this critical
    event in Philippine history,

    “In history, there is still this passion for primary sources. If you really want to be a credible
    historian, you should not be [content] with translations and secondary accounts,” said Escalante.
    Bringing home the Pigafetta manuscripts is one way to promote the study of history, especially
    that chapter in the Philippines’ shrouded in mystery.

    That’s why written accounts by foreigners who visited the Philippines in that epoch are valuable,
    and the Pigafetta manuscripts all the more so, for their level of detail and the historic events they
    describe.
    For instance, Pigafetta narrates that the first Easter Day Mass was celebrated in the Philippines in
    a place called Limasawa. Despite a law in the 1960s declaring that this happened in Limasawa
    Island, Southern Leyte, there remain adherents to the theory that the site was Butuan, in a
    swampy area that had been called Mazaua.
    Pigafetta also relates the planting of a cross in a mountain in Limasawa, and days later, in Cebu,
    the bequeathal of a statue of the baby Jesus to Juana, wife of Bisaya ruler Raja Humabon.

    In a simple response, Antonio Pigafetta’s account of the Philippines was the first detailed and
    descriptive observation made of the people, their lives and languages along with the geographical
    information he collected and wrote about on the voyage.
    Some of the information that Pigafetta provided is used by many Filipino Quora contributors in
    defining the history of the Philippines prior to the Spanish settlements.
    It also puts to rest the myth of who actually killed Magellan and it wasn’t done by a 70 plus years
    old man.

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