Upon his return to San Lucar on the 6th of September, 1522, after having fulfilled the vow which he had made to go bare-foot to return thanks to _Nuesta Senora de la Victoria_, the Lombard (as they called him on board the _Victoria_,) presented to Charles V., then at Valladolid, a complete journal of the voyage. When he returned to Italy, by means of the original as well as of some supplementary notes, he wrote a longer narrative of the expedition, at the request of Pope Clement VII. and of Villiers de l'Isle Adam, grand-master of the Knights of Malta. He sent copies of this work to several distinguished personages, and notably to Louisa of Savoy, mother of Francis I. But she not understanding, so thinks Harrisse, the very learned author of the _Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima_, the kind of patois used by Pigafetta, and which resembles a mixture of Italian, Venetian, and Spanish, employed a certain Jacques Antoine Fabre to translate it into French. Instead of giving a faithful translation, Fabre made a kind of abridgment of it. Some critics, however, suppose that this narrative must have been written originally in French; they found their opinion upon the existence of three French manuscripts of the sixteenth century, which give very different readings, and of which two are deposited in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. Pigafetta died at Venice about 1534, in a house in the Rue de la Lune, which in 1800 was still to be seen, and which bore the well-known device, "No rose without a thorn." At the same time, not wishing to confine ourselves to Pigafetta's narrative entirely, we have compared and completed it with that of Maximilian Transylvain, secretary to Charles V., of which there is an Italian translation in Ramusio's valuable collection. The fleet of Magellan consisted of the _Trinidad_, of 120 tons' burden, which carried the flag of the commander of the expedition; the _Sant'-Antonio_, also of 120 tons, commanded by Juan de Carthagena, the second in rank, the _person joined with_ Magellan, says the official document; the _Concepcion_, of 90 tons, commanded by Gaspar de Quesada; the famous _Victoria_, of 85 tons, commanded by Luis de Mendoza; and lastly the _Santiago_, of 75 tons, commanded by Joao Serrao, called by the Spaniards Serrano. Four of these captains and nearly all the pilots were Portuguese. Barbosa and Gomez on board the _Trinidad_, Luis Alfonso de Goez and Vasco Gallego on the _Victoria_, Serrao, Joao Lopez de Carvalho on the _Concepcion_, Joao Rodriguez de Moefrapil on the _Sant'-Antonio_, and Joao Serrao on the _Santiago_, with 25 sailors, formed a total of 33 Portuguese out of the whole body of 237 individuals whose names have all been handed down to us, and amongst whom are found a considerable number of Frenchmen.