Antonio Pigafetta, cavaleiro do mar oceano. Uma reconstrução biográfica

Abstract

The first voyage around the world was made known to us through the relationship that the Vincentian Antonio Pigafetta, embarked in the ship of Fernand Magellan, wrote over many months of sailing. Of the 26 Italians who were part of the Portuguese captain’s crew serving Castile, Antonio Pigafetta was one of two who completed the circumnavigation voyage, returning after three years to the Spanish port of San Lúcar de Barrameda. The text presented here aims to systematize known sources and recent investigations in order to draw the life course of the Vincentian knight of Ocean Sea.