<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Italian </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Other names </Th> <Td> Antonio Lombardo </Td> </Tr> <P> Antonio Pigafetta (Italian: (anˈtɔnjo piɡaˈfetta); c. 1491--c. 1531) 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 around the world . 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 the language . </P> <P> 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 had served as captain after Magellan's death during the voyage in 1521 in the Philippines . Pigafetta's surviving journal is the source for much of what we know about Magellan and Elcano's voyage . </P>

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