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This post is written by Vicente Calibo de Jesus, Renaissance navigation historian, particularly on Mazaua historiography.
Fernao de Magalhaes states in his Last Will and Testament his “captured” slave, Enrique, was a native of Malacca. On the other hand, the Vicentine diarist, Antonio Pigafetta, explicitly says “Henrich” was from Sumatra. Maximilianus Transylvanus says the slave was […]
This post is written by Vicente Calibo de Jesus, Renaissance navigation historian, particularly on Mazaua historiography.
Conventional wisdom tells us the first Europeans to reach our archipelago were those in the Armada de Molucca under Fernao de Magalhaes (Ferdinand Magellan) in March 1521.
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But this is now open to […]
The first Philippine words ever recorded were Bisayan, consisting mostly of Cebuano and a few Butuanon words.
The 160-word vocabulary was compiled by Antonio Pigafetta, the Vicentine diarist who wrote the most comprehensive account of the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Pigafetta recounts in his book that on Good Friday, 29 March 1521 he had written down […]
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