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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writersPigafetta, Antonio

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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

Name: The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers
Author: Pigafetta, Antonio

Pigafetta, Antonio

Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800

A LETTER
                                 FROM
                       MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS
                                TO THE
                  MOST REVEREND CARDINAL OF SALZBURG,
                       VERY DELIGHTFUL TO READ,
             CONCERNING THE MOLUCCA ISLANDS, AND ALSO MANY
               OTHER WONDERS, WHICH THE LATEST VOYAGE OF
                  THE SPANIARDS HAS JUST DISCOVERED.


            (THE TITLE IN RAMUSIO’S COLLECTION RUNS THUS)—

  A Letter of Maximilianus Transylvanus, Secretary to His Majesty the
      Emperor, written to the Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord
        the Cardinal of Salzburg, concerning the wonderful and
            astonishing Voyage made by the Spaniards in the
                      Year 1519, round the World.




                             DISCOURSE OF
                     M. GIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMUSIO
                               UPON THE
             VOYAGE MADE BY THE SPANIARDS ROUND THE WORLD.


The voyage made by the Spaniards round the world in the space of
three years is one of the greatest and most marvellous things which
have been heard of in our times; and, although in many things we
surpass the ancients, yet this expedition far excels every other that
has been made up till now. The voyage was described very minutely
by Peter Martyr, who belonged to the Council of the Indies of His
Majesty the Emperor, and to whom was entrusted the duty of writing
this history; and by him were examined all those who remained alive of
that expedition, and who reached Seville in the year 1522. But, as it
was sent to be printed in Rome, it was lost in the miserable sacking
of that city; and nothing is known even now as to where it is. And he
who saw it, and read it, bears testimony to the same; and, amongst
other things worthy of recollection that the aforesaid Peter noted
concerning the voyage, was this, that the Spaniards, having sailed
about three years and one month, and the greater part of them, as is
usual amongst seafaring men, having noted down the days of the months
one by one, found, when they arrived in Spain, that they had lost a
day, for the day on which they arrived at Seville, which was the 7th
of September, was, by their reckoning, the 6th. And the aforesaid
Peter having mentioned this peculiarity to a certain excellent and
extraordinary man, who was at that time ambassador for his Republic to
His Majesty; and, having asked him how it could be, he, who was a great
philosopher and learned in Greek and Latin literature, so that for his
singular learning and rare excellence, he was afterwards promoted to
much higher rank, gave this explanation: That it could not have fallen
out otherwise, as they had travelled for three years continuously and
always accompanied the sun, which was going westward. And he told him
besides, that those who sailed due westwards towards the sun, lengthen
their day very much, as the ancients also had noticed. Now, the book

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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writersPigafetta, Antonio

History

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

Pigafetta, Antonio

Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800

A LETTER
                                 FROM
                       MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS
                                TO THE
                  MOST REVEREND CARDINAL OF SALZBURG,
                       VERY DELIGHTFUL TO READ,
             CONCERNING THE MOLUCCA ISLANDS, AND ALSO MANY
               OTHER WONDERS, WHICH THE LATEST VOYAGE OF
                  THE SPANIARDS HAS JUST DISCOVERED.


            (THE TITLE IN RAMUSIO’S COLLECTION RUNS THUS)—

  A Letter of Maximilianus Transylvanus, Secretary to His Majesty the
      Emperor, written to the Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord
        the Cardinal of Salzburg, concerning the wonderful and
            astonishing Voyage made by the Spaniards in the
                      Year 1519, round the World.




                             DISCOURSE OF
                     M. GIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMUSIO
                               UPON THE
             VOYAGE MADE BY THE SPANIARDS ROUND THE WORLD.


The voyage made by the Spaniards round the world in the space of
three years is one of the greatest and most marvellous things which
have been heard of in our times; and, although in many things we
surpass the ancients, yet this expedition far excels every other that
has been made up till now. The voyage was described very minutely
by Peter Martyr, who belonged to the Council of the Indies of His
Majesty the Emperor, and to whom was entrusted the duty of writing
this history; and by him were examined all those who remained alive of
that expedition, and who reached Seville in the year 1522. But, as it
was sent to be printed in Rome, it was lost in the miserable sacking
of that city; and nothing is known even now as to where it is. And he
who saw it, and read it, bears testimony to the same; and, amongst
other things worthy of recollection that the aforesaid Peter noted
concerning the voyage, was this, that the Spaniards, having sailed
about three years and one month, and the greater part of them, as is
usual amongst seafaring men, having noted down the days of the months
one by one, found, when they arrived in Spain, that they had lost a
day, for the day on which they arrived at Seville, which was the 7th
of September, was, by their reckoning, the 6th. And the aforesaid
Peter having mentioned this peculiarity to a certain excellent and
extraordinary man, who was at that time ambassador for his Republic to
His Majesty; and, having asked him how it could be, he, who was a great
philosopher and learned in Greek and Latin literature, so that for his
singular learning and rare excellence, he was afterwards promoted to
much higher rank, gave this explanation: That it could not have fallen
out otherwise, as they had travelled for three years continuously and
always accompanied the sun, which was going westward. And he told him
besides, that those who sailed due westwards towards the sun, lengthen
their day very much, as the ancients also had noticed. Now, the book

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

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