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1. Lesson 1: Excerpt from Antonio
Pigafetta's First Voyage Around
the World [Chronicle]

2. ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• An Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of
Venice.
• He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by
explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of King
Charles I of Spain and, after Magellan's death in the
Philippines, the subsequent 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.

3. Lesson 2: Excerpt from Juan de
Plasencia's Customs of the
Tagalogs, [Social-Cultural
Observation]

4. JUAN DE PLASENCIA
• A Spanish friar of the Franciscan
Order.
• He spent most of his missionary life in
the Philippines, where he founded
numerous towns in Luzon and
authored several religious and
linguistic books, most notably the
Doctrina Cristiana (Christian
Doctrine), the first book ever printed
in the Philippines.